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PROGRESSIVE 

FRENCH SCHOOL SERIES. 

JI Complete Course of Study of the French Language, as it is Read, Written and Spoken 
In 6 volumes, beautifully printed on fine paper, and bound to match. 



I. & II. 

COLLOT'S LEVIZAC'S 
FRENCH GRAMMAR AND 
EXERCISES. 

In this Grammar, the basis of which is 
Leviza ■'.« French Grammar, the vaiuahle 
but ill-arranged contents of that work 
have been reduced to a natural order. 
Those parts of it which were either en- 
tirely out of place in a Grammar, or were 
too abstruse for the young Scholar, have 
been expunged; and the room thus ob- 
tained has been occupied by such improve- 
ments and modifications as have been re- 
cognized by the best modern authorities ; 
by a Table of a'l the Irregular and De- 
fective Verbs in the French Language, 
conjugated in all the Tenses which are 
liable to Irregularities ; and by a Termi- 
national Vocabulary, whereby, for the 
first time in any Grammar, and in the 
short space of 12 pages, the Gender of 
every French Noun may be promptly and 
certainly determined. 

The Exercises have also been greatly 
amplified, and carefully revised and cor- 
rected; and the Inductive Method, through- 
out the Grammar, and particularly in the 
Exercises, has been, as far as practicable, 
pursued. 

KEY TO THE EXER- 
CISES IN THE GRAM- 
MAR. 

This Key is intended to aid the Teacher 
and Parent, who may not be master of the 
nicer difficulties of the French language ; 
g>.nd also the self-taught student. The 
Publishers hope that it will supply a de- 
ficiency which has long been felt; and be 
particularly useful in those large portions 
of the country where, from the scattered 
condition of the population, highly quali- 
fied French teachers cannot be obtained, 
or where the studies of the child are di- 
rected by the zealous and intelligent pa- 
reot, 

III. &, IV. 

COLLOT'S PRONOUNC- 
ING AND INTERLINEAR 
FRENCH READER. In 2 
vols, viz. i 



vol. i. Collot's Pronouncing 
French Reader ; on a Plan of 
Pronunciation, New, Simple anch 
Effective : being a course of Inter- 
esting and Instructive Lessons 
taken from the Works of the best 
French Prose Writers and Poets, 
preceded by Easy Fables. And, 

vol. ii. Collot's Interlinear 
French Reader ; on Locke's 
Plan of Instruction : being a Key 
to " Collot's Pronouncing French 
Reader." 

These two volumes are to be used in con- 
junction. The one is devoted to Trans- 
lation, the other to Pronunciation : which 
arrangement is deemed an imnovement 
on the ordinary mode of computing the 
distinct and independent objects of study. 
Translation and Pronunciation, in the 
same Volume, and on the same Page. 

The Interlinear French Reader con- 
tains an Interlinear literal-and-free trans- 
lation of all the Prose in the Pronounc- 
ing French, Reader, comprising about two- 
thirds of the latter volume. The Lessons 
commence with short and simple Fables, 
and proceed, by easy progression, through 
varied selections from the finest Prose 
Writers in the French language. Funda- 
mental rules, to which frequent reference 
is made in the text, are placed at the end 
of the volume; while foot-notes give the 
literal meaning of all such words as can- 
not be rendered literally into English sense. 
As the pupil advances, these helps are 
gradually withdrawn, so that a knowledge 
of all that has pieceded is requisite to a 
competent, rehearsal of his lesson. 

The Pronouncing French Reader con- 
tnins a. system of Pronunciation, which is 
entirely new, and singularly simple and 
effective. It is believed to be the first at- 
tempt which has been made to communi- 
cate a knowledge of French pronuncia- 
tion on scientific principles ; and it con- 
forms, as far as possible, by a Running 
Pronunciation at the head of the page, 
&c, to the plan which has been made 
familiar to every one in Walker's English 
Pronouncing Dictionary. This volume 
consists of Selections, both in Prose an<* 



COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE FRENCH SCHOOL SERIES. 



Poetry ; and is divided into Four Parts, 
to accommodate the progressive nature 
of the instructions on Pronunciation The 
first three Parts consist entirely of Prose, 
and contain the whole of ihe texi of which 
an in .'ilinear translation is g ; ven in the 
Interlinear French Reader. The Fourth 
Part comprises a Selection of Extracts 
from the works of the brst French Poets, 
preceded by a short Treatise oil the Read- 
ing: ill French Poetry. To this Fourth 
Part there is no translation ; and the 
Treatise on Reading- French Poetry, and 
the Notes, are given in French : as the 
pupii, when he has advanced thus far, is 
supposed and expected to be able to read 
trench, assisted only by his Grammar 
and Dictionary. 

Collofs Pronouncing and Interlinear 
French Reader may, therefore, be said to 
enable a pupil, if he study with attention, 
to pronounce, read and understand any 
French which his teacher or his own 
taste may seiect for him ; although entire- 
ly ignorant of the language when he 
commenced them. 

V. &, VI. 

COLLOT'S FRENCH 
DIALOGUES AND PHRA- 
SES, with an English Transla- 
tion : consisting of numerous Con- 
versations on Familiar Subjects, 
and a select Collection of Idioms 
and Proverbs. The whole calcu- 
lated to facilitate the study of the 
French Language : and especially 
the Art of Speaking it. And, 

COLLOT'S FRENCH 
ANECDOTES AND QUES- 
TIONS : consisting of Anecdotes, 
with Questions for Examination : 
Intended as a Reading, Reciting 
and Question Book for Schools ; 
and especially, in conjunction with 
" Coi lot's French Dialogues and 



Phrases," as a Guide to French 
Conversational Narration. 

These ConversationalJVewc/j Dialogues 
bring into use the ordinary colloquial lan- 
guage of polite society. A sustained 
connection of idea, and the dramatic form 
in which they are cast, render them easy 
of acquisition. The pupil, when he has 
committed to memory ten or twelve of 
these Dialogues, wiil have made some 
progress in expressing himself in French ; 
and will i hen cail into play the Idioms 
and Proverbs which he will rind at the 
end of the volume, by introducing them, 
as occasion offers, in his attempts at origi- 
nal conversation. 

The pupil is now prepared for another 
step. Let him then take the volume of 
French Anecdotes and Questions, and 
make himself familiar with the incidents 
of one of the Anecdotes, without regard 
to the words in which it is narrated. Ho 
will now recite the anecdote to his 
Teacher, in the best French which he can 
command at the moment ; who will aid 
him if embarrassed for want of a word. 
When the pupil has recited the anecdote, 
let the teacher ask him Questions on it in 
French, and require immediate answers to 
them in the same language. The Second 
Part of the volume consists of Questions 
prepared for this purpose. 

This course of study is to be continued 
throughout the two volumes of Jjialogues 
and Phrases, and of Anecdotes and Ques- 
tions ; and although the pupil may stum- 
ble a little at first, he will be surprised and 
delighted- to find, ere long, that he has, 
almost insensibly, acquired the enviable 
accomplishment of speaking French. 

Such is the method of using these two 
volumes pursued by the Author; and his 
success under it has been most signal and 
flattering. Those, however, who may 
find it inconvenient, will conform to the 
ordinary plan. By any mode of instruc- 
tion, these JJialogues and Phrases will 
be found decidedly preferable to uncon- 
nected Colloquial Phrases ; and have been 
already extensively so used. The volume 
of Anecdotes and Questions has also been 
successfully introduced into Schools as a 
Reciting and Reading Book ; for which, 
from the pleasing nature of the contents, 
it is well calculated. The Questions, 
under this mode of using the book, might 
be given as an exeicise, :'di\ written an- 
swers in the pupil's own French required. 



For a more detailed account of Collot's Progressive French School Se- 
ries; Critical Notices of the Press; and Opinions of Professors and Teachers 
of the French Language in our Colleges and Schools, and of other Individuals 
of hij^h authority : see the Advertisement placed at the end of Collot's Levi- 
zac's French Grammar and Exercises. 

See also the Prefaces of each volume, for the best mode of using it in tuition. 



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PROGRESSIVE 

INTERLINEAR FRENCH 
READER; 

ON LOCKE'S PLAN OF INSTRUCTION: • 



A COURSE OF INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSONS 
IN FRENCH LITERATURE, 

SELECTED FROM 

THE WORKS OF THE MOST EMINENT PROSE WRITERS, 

AND PRECEDED BY 

A COLLECTION OF EASY FABLES J 

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into English, whereby any one may learn to read 
French without an Instructor. 



II. A Grammatical Commentary. 

III. Analytic Notes of Difficult and Idiomatic 
Words and Phrases. 



BY A. G. g,OLLOT, 

PROFESSOR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ENGLAND J 

AUTHOR OF THE " PROGRESSIVE FRENCH SCHOOL SERIES j" AND LATE 

TEACHER OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN PHILADELPHIA. 

THE WHOLE TO BE USED AS 

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PREFACE. 



In the prosecution of his design of preparing a complete 
course of text books for the study of the French language, 
the author has presented to the public his " French Dia- 
logues and Phrases," and " French Anecdotes and Ques- 
tions," which, in a comparatively short period of time, have 
reached a third edition. These works, which were intend- 
ed to be used together, present a method of study whereby 
the pupil may most easily learn to speak French and to 
understand it when spoken. 

The "Interlinear French Reader," which he now 
publishes, and the " Pronouncing French Reader," to which 
it is the Key and in conjunction with which it is to be used, 
form one entire work, in two volumes. The volume to 
which the following remarks are preparatory attempts to 
communicate the routine, and afford the means of practice, 
whereby the student may, in the shortest space of time, 
acquire the arts of reading and translating, and finally of 
composing in the French language. For a statement of 
the features which are peculiar to the "Pronouncing 
French Reader," see the preface of that work. 

The author has adopted, as the basis of the present volume, 
the method of Translation commonly termed the Interlinear, 
in the belief, confirmed by great personal experience, that 
it is the most rapid and thorough, and at the same time 
" easy and delightful" plan which has been devised for the 
acquisition of languages. This opinion has been contro- 
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PREFACE. 



verted in reference to the study of the learned languages by 
the advocates of the Grammar-and-Dictionary plan, as the 
old system is termed ; but he is not aware that any teacher 
or writer of eminence has objected to its assistance for the 
living tongues. He does not therefore deem it necessary 
to enter into a detailed defence of the Interlinear system of 
instruction on this occasion ; and shall content himself with 
little more than a statement of the single but impressive 
fact, that the method of translation , and its consonance 
with nature and common sense, as an instrument for the 
acquisition of languages, have been advocated, under vari- 
ous modifications of detail, by names no less distinguished 
than those of Cicero, the younger Pliny and Quintilian 
among the ancients, and among the moderns, of Erasmus, 
Ascham, the tutor of queen Elizabeth and the most learned 
scholar of his day, the poet Milton, Locke, Condillac, 
Dumarsais, Hamilton ; and the founders of the London 
University, at the head of whom is the celebrated Lord 
Brougham.* Condillac and Dumarsais. among the French, 
and Ascham, Milton, Locke, Hamilton, and the authors of 
the Interlinear Books used in the London University, among 
the English, have written on the subject at length. 

Condillac, in discoursing of the writings of Dumarsais, 
speaks thus of the method of Interlinear Translation. " It 
is without doubt the best mode of teaching a language : it 
is precisely the mode which the child pursues in learning 
the language of his parents." Another French writer, 



* To these may be added, the names of Colet, Dean, of St. 
Paul's School, and his patron, Cardinal VVolsey ; Sir John Cheke, 
the tutor of Edward the Sixth, and also of Ascham ; Lily, the 
Grammarian ; the celebrated Dr. Parr ; and last, though by no 
means least, the editors of the London Quarterly Review, a peri- 
odical equally remarkable for the learning- and genius which adorn 
its pages, and for its slow acquiescence in any novel doctrines 
whether in education or politics. 



PREFACE. vii 



scarcely less eminent, pronounces it "a silent and com- 
plaisant teacher, whom the scholar may consult as often 
and as long as his measure of intellectual capacity may 
require, without the fear of exhausting either his time or 
his patience. By its assistance," says he, "a mother may 
instruct her child in his lesson, and the zealous student 
even teach himself." Milton's opinion of a plan of in- 
struction nearly identical with that of Interlinear transla- 
tion, is well expressed in few words : " This I take to be 
the most rational and most profitable way of learning 
languages, and whereby w r e may hope to give account to 
God of our youth spent therein." The great Locke, the 
highest authority in all that relates to " the human under- 
standing," knew well the errors of the old system, and with 
Herculean vigour attempted to remove them. His object 
was to initiate the pupil generally into the knowledge of a 
language, before he troubled him with the abstruser rules 
of grammar; and the medium by which he proposed to 
give him this initiatory knowledge was that of Interlinear 
translation. He actually executed such a translation of 
iEsop's Fables, w r hich appeared soon after his death ; and 
this little work of his has been the original model of all 
subsequent Interlinear translations. Locke's " Easy Method 
of acquiring Languages," as unfolded in his celebrated 
" Treatise on Education," is the groundwork of the sys- 
tem on which this "Interlinear Reader" has been con- 
structed ; and it is only in carrying out, to the fullest 
practicable extent, and even enlarging upon, the plan of 
Locke, that the author claims for his book any merit for 
such particulars as distinguish it, he hopes favourably, 
from similar works already before the public. Before 
concluding these prefatory remarks, he would call the 
attention of the reader to a brief sketch of the publi- 
cation, whose principle and details are thus powerfully 
authorized. 



PREFACE. 



The text, with the exception of a Selection of Fables, 
which are intended to be introductory, consists of instruc- 
tive and purely moral extracts from the best writers in 
the French language. It is scarcely necessary to repeat 
the general complaint that there was no French school- 
book, on the Interlinear system, that gives a sufficient 
insight into the language, as now written: the works 
hitherto published having taken as their text some one 
French author, and with little regard to the choice of the 
best in style or subject for such a purpose. The author 
has endeavoured to supply this deficiency : his selections 
have been made with a view to as great a variety of pleas- 
ing subjects, as also to the primary consideration of their 
containing as many new words, as possible ; and are, 
besides, sufficiently long to give the student an ample 
specimen of the style of each writer. In the " Interlinear 
Reader" he has confined himself to prose pieces exclu- 
sively ; in the belief that the difficulties besetting the path 
of the student in the first stages of his progress are suf- 
ficiently numerous, without increasing them by the intro- 
duction of poetry. In the " Pronouncing Reader," how- 
ever, which, in the first three parts, repeats the French 
text of the " Interlinear Reader," he has given, as a Fourth 
and Last Part, a course of Lessons in French Poetry, into 
which he has admitted no compositions which are not of 
the highest order of merit. 

In the "Interlinear Reader," the student will acquire 
a familiar acquaintance with several thousand French 
words in frequent use ; and, which is much more impor- 
tant, with the chief peculiarities of French idioms and 
forms of expression. When therefore he comes to the 



P R E F A C E . 



Poetry in the fourth and final part of the "Pronouncing 
Reader," he will be prepared to dispense with the aid of 
Interlinear Translation, and to make his way unassisted 
except by notes giving the meaning of the more difficult 
words and phrases. From this, to the perusal of any 
French work which he may choose, the path is short and 
easy. Thus, in contradistinction to the plan of all previous 
works which have met the eye of the author, the student 
is not forsaken, until, by a gradual progress from difficulty 
to difficulty — from interlinear translation, to the naked text 
accompanied only by explanatory and critical notes — he is 
qualified to undertake the perusal of authors, unassisted by 
helps of any kind. 

In the translation of the French, he has been governed 
by a desire to give such a rendering of each word, as 
should best combine the two modes of version commonly 
termed literal, and free (or sense). Every word, as far as 
possible, is rendered in its corresponding part of speech, 
even to the cases of nouns and tenses of verbs ; so that 
the French grammar is taught already, even before its 
formal study is commenced, to those who know English 
grammar. Where it has not been practicable to translate 
an expression literally, and at the same time to the sense 
also, the free translation has been placed under the 
French text, and reference made to a note at the foot of 
the page for the exact meaning of each word of which 
the expression consists. In the choice of meanings, the 
author has proceeded on the principle that, owing to the 
scantiness of the vocabulary of all languages, most words 
have more than one meaning. For instance, instead of 
always translating the French word de by the English 
word of, he recognises the existence of several other 
equivalents of it, and has frequently rendered it by the 
words by, from, with, &c. In this important respect, 
also, his plan differs from that of his predecessors, who, 



PREFACE. 



by giving always the same rendering to the same word, 
have been obliged to annex the correct meaning in a 
parenthesis, and thus to incumber and deform the appear- 
ance of their book, to the great perplexity and disgust of 
the student. 

In the typographical details he has been materially 
aided by the printer, who seconded his views to the 
utmost. Instances of the division of a word, or even of 
an idiomatic expression consisting of several words, at 
the end of a line, are few ; much more than the usual 
space has been allowed between the words ; and scarce 
an error has escaped deteciion. These advantages were 
not secured without the expense of considerable time and 
ingenuity. 

A " Grammatical Commentary," consisting of Notes, 
few in number, but highly important as explanatory of 
embarrassing difficulties, or illustrative of striking pecu- 
liarities, forms one of the novel features of this book. 
They have been preserved in a body for convenience 
sake. Frequent reference is made to them from the text, 
in the early part of the work ; but as the student is deem- 
ed to have become familiar with them, allusions to them 
become gradually more rare, and finally are altogether dis- 
continued. 

For the method of teaching and studying this work, and 
the explanation of the signs used in it, the author refers 
to a subsequent page.* He would, however, particularly 

* A sufficient apology for making these instructions more full 
than concise, will, he trusts, be found, in his desire to render the 
work as available as possible in the numerous districts of this wide- 
spread republic, in which the assistance of a French professor is 
not to be obtained ; and where, consequently — at least in the 
initiatory steps — so much must depend on the tuition of the parent, 
or the nearest teacher who may make the laudable attempt to give 
instructions in the language. 



PREFACE. xi 

,_ * 

direct attention, in this place, to the importance of the 
instructions there given for rendering the English version 
back into its original French. This process, combined 
with the previous translation of the French into English, 
and the study of grammar, is known by the name of 
"Double Translation;" and was that which, as applied 
to the Latin and Greek, the celebrated Roger Ascham 
termed " the plain and perfect way of teaching languages." 
Sir John Cheke, the tutor of Ascham, pursued it in his 
education of King Edward the Sixth, as did Ascham in 
that of Queen Elizabeth; and it is supported by the 
authority of Cicero, the younger Pliny and Quintilian. 
The author is aware that the time devoted by the French 
professor to the instruction of classes in academies in 
which other branches of learning are taught, is generally 
too limited to permit him to superintend it in person. In 
such cases, it may be conducted, under his direction, by 
the principal, or one of his assistants ; as little more is 
required, in the individual deputed to this duty, than 
vigilance, and a rigid exaction of the strict performance of 
the exercise by the pupils. 

Some opinion may be expected from the author as to 
the proper time for commencing the Grammar with its 
accompanying Exercises. On this subject it is not pos- 
sible to give specific instructions. He will merely remark 
that he considers his " Dialogues and Phrases," and " Pro- 
nouncing and Interlinear Reader" as initiatory in his course 
of French text-books ; and that until some practice has 
been acquired in translating, pronouncing and speaking 
the language, through the medium of these books, he con- 
siders it useless and even worse than useless to accumulate 
burthens on the already overloaded scholar by involving 
him in the acknowledged difficulties of grammar study. 
In his own tuition, the grammar is withheld from the pupil, 
until he has perused the larger portion or the whole of the 



PREFACE. 



tables, and committed to memory, so as to recollect per- 
fectly, some eight or ten of the Dialogues. This rule how- 
ever is not without its exceptions ; and the period is antici- 
pated, or postponed, according to the greater or lesser 
capacity of the learner. 

By the completion of this elementary course, the stu- 
dent will not only be perfectly competent to enter on the 
reading of French authors, but will be prepared with a 
valuable store of words and phrases for French compo- 
sition. The practice of writing the language will insure 
a critical acquaintance with its niceties ; and although, in 
commencing a new author, the young learner may require 
some assistance, yet, as far as the language is concerned, 
he may rest assured that he is already in possession of its 
leading properties and powers. 

T This work has now assumed its permanent form, and 
will not henceforth be subjected to alterations of any 
description. 



CONTENTS. 

Method of Study, and Explanation of the Signs. .... xvii 



I The Coach and the Fly. A Fable. . ..... 21 

II The Dog and the Shadow. A Fable 23 

III The Fox and the Grapes. A Fable ...... 24 

IV The Sheep and the Bush. A Fable 25 

V ..The Ass and the Wolf. A Fable. ...... . 25 

VI The Thief and the Dog. A Fable 26 

VII The Jackdaw. A Fable .". .... 27 

VIII. The Miser. A Fable 27 

IX .The Fox and the Tiger. A Fable 28 

X .Benefits. A Fable 29 

XL The Blind Hen. A Fable . . 29 

XII The two Cocks. A Fable 30 

XIII. The Oak and the Pig. A Fable 31 

XIV .The Nightingale and the Prince. A Fable 32 

XV .The Hornets and the Bees. A Fable 32 

XVI The Bear and the two Hunters. A Fable 34 

XVII. The Raven and the Fox. A Fable 35 

XVIH. The Wolf on his Death Bed. A Fable ... 36 

XIX Jupiter and the Sheep. A Fable 38 

XX .The Cricket. A Fable 39 

XXI The Sheep and the Dog. A Fable 40 

XXII The Milk-Woman and the Milk-Pot. A 

Fable 41 

XXin The Wolf and the Lamb. A Fable ...... 42 

XXTV The Monkeys and the Leopard. A Fable 43 

XXV The Wild Boar and the Nightingales. A 

Fable 45 

XXVI The Children and the Young Partridges. A 

Fable 46 

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xiv CONTENTS. 



XXVII The Dove and the Ant. A Fable 48 

XXVIII The Lion and the Gnat. A Fable 49 

XXIX The Owl, the Cat, the Goose and the Rat. 

A Fable 50 

XXX The Horse and the Wolf. A Fable 52 

XXXI The Shaggy Dog and the Sheep. A Fable 53 

XXXII The Frog and the Mouse. A Fable .... 54 

XXXIII The Two Pigeons. A Fable 56 

XXXIV The Monkey. An Apologue .... Fenelon 58 

XXXV The Rabbit of La Fontaine. An Apologue 

he Prince Be Ligne 61 

XXXVI Letter from Madame de Sevigne to her 

Daughter , 64 

XXXVII Letter from Madame de Maintenon to her 

Niece 67 

XXXVIII Letter from the Marchioness de Favras 

to Madame de Valcour 69 

XXXIX Letter from the same to Madame de Belle- 

cour 72 

XL Letter from Voltaire to a Young Lady, 

who had consulted him on the books 

which she ought to read 78 

XLI Letter from Voltaire to Madame Du DefFand 81 

XLII Letter from Racine to his son 84 

XLIII Letter from Courier to Madame Pigalle . . 87 

XLIV Letter from the same to the same 90 

XLV Letter from Voltaire to Helvetius, on the 

Art of Writing 94 

XLVI Letter from Voltaire to Helvetius. Ad- 
vices on the Art of writing Verses . . 97 
XLVII Letter from J. J. Rousseau to a Young 

Man 100 

XLVIII Dream of Marcus Aurelius Thomas 103 

XLIX Judgments pronounced in Egypt on the 

Dead Thomas 105 

L. Origin and Springs of Human Industry 

Volney 109 



CONTENTS. 



U Means to know the Great Effects of the 

Varieties of Nature 

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 112 

III The Spectacle of a Beautiful Night in the 

Wilis of the New World 

Chateaubriand 116 

LIII Prayer of Evening- on Board of a Ship 

Chateaubriand 118 

LIV The Volcano of Quito Marmontel 121 

LV Weakness of the Power of Man against 

that of Nature. Bern, de Saint- Pierre 124 

LVI Rising of the Sun J. J. Rousseau 126 

LVII The Ruins of Palmyra Volney 128 

LVIII Physical and Moral Aspect of Constanti- 
nople Chateaubriand 131 

LIX Taking of the Bastile Thiers 135 

LX Of the Earth Fenelon 141 

LXI The Immateriality of the Soul 

J. J. Rousseau 144 

LXII The Gospel J. J. Rousseau 146 

LXIII True and False Philanthropy . . . Fenelon 149 

LXIV The Extreme Greatness and the Utmost 

Littleness of Nature Pascal 151 

LXV Human Weakness Pascal 154 

LXVI The Pleasures of the Rural Life, opposed 

to the Pleasures of Cities. Barthelemy 158 

XXVII The World Mmsillon 162 

LXVIII The House of John James in the Country, 

if he was rich J. J. Rousseau 167 

LXIX Flattery, Disguise of the Truth 

Massillon 172 

LXX The Present and the Future Fenelon 175 

LXXI Duelling J. J. Rousseau 177 

LXXII Suicide J. J. Rousseau 182 

LXXIIL Happiness of Virtuous Men in the Elysian 

Fields Fenelon 186 

LXXIV The Vintage Pougens 192 

LXXV Discourse of Archidamus to the Lacede- 
monians Barthelemy 195 



xvi CONTENTS. 



LXXVI Peroration of the Eulogy of Marcus Aure- 

lius Thomas 199 

LXXVII Character of the Fop Desmahis 203 

LXXVIII Character of the Selfish Man. La Bruyere 205 

LXXIX The Wealthy and the Poor Man 

La Bruyere 208 

LXXX Curiosity, or Fancies La Bruyere 211 

LXXXI The Storm, and the Cavern of the Ser- 
pents, in Peru Marmontel 221 

LXXXII. The Meschacebe or Mississippi 

Chateaubriand 227 

LXXXIII Against the Use of Flesh Meats 

J. J. Rousseau 232 

LXXXIV Portrait of Alcibiades Barthelemy 239 

LXXXV Portrait of Peter the Great Voltaire 245 

LXXXVI Portrait of Charles XII Voltaire 247 

LXXXVII Portrait of Washington Anonymous 249 

LXXXVIII. . . Portrait of Hippocrates Barthelemy 254 

LXXXIX Portrait of Plato Barthelemy 259 

XC The World of Insects on a Plant 

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 266 

XCI Sensations of the First Man after the Cre- 
ation Buffon 276 



Grammatical Commentary, consisting of Grammatical 
Notes referred to from the French Text 287 



METHOD OF STUDY, 



EXPLANATION OF THE SIGNS. 



Before the learner enters on the study of this work, he will 
pay attention to the following Remarks. 

Explanation of the Signs. 

1. Words, in the English translation, enclosed in brackets, 
thus [ ], are to be omitted in recitation. They convey the 
exact meaning of the French words above them, but cannot, 
conformably with the idiom of the English language, be recited. 

2. Words in the English translation printed in the Italic cha- 
racter (as in the English Bible), have no corresponding words 
in the French ; and it will be observed that the space above them 
in the French is vacant. They are inserted only when requisite 
to the completion of the sense in the English. 

3. The dash, thus — , is placed under such French words as 
cannot be translated. It is never used except under the nega- 
tive, or the preposition de. See notes e and x in the Gramma- 
tical Commentary 

4. The hyphen, thus -, is used in both the French and English 
to connect two or more words, when the French cannot be ren- 
dered into English word for word. When the expression in the 
French is what is called idiomatic, the sense is given in the 
English in the line below, and the exact meaning of each word 
in a note at the foot of the page, which is referred to by the *, 
or t, or £, &c. 

2 A * (17) 



METHOD OF STUDY, A.ND 



Grammatical notes which are not of sufficiently general ap- 
plication to be inserted in the Grammatical Commentary, are 
also placed at the foot of the page. 

5. The small letters of the alphabet, a , b , c , &c, placed after, 
and occasionally before, words in the French, refer to notes 
which are collected in the Grammatical Commentary. 

6. The small figures, \ 2 , 3 , 4 , &c, of frequent occurrence be- 
fore words in the English translation, indicate the natural order 
of arrangement of the words having such figures prefixed to 
them. Where one of these small figures occurs before the first 
only of two or more words connected by a hyphen or hyphens, 
the student will understand that all the words thus connected 
are governed by the single figure in like manner as if they 
were but one word. It may be proper to remark, that no liber- 
ties have been taken with the order of arrangement of the 
French text, which has been given precisely as originally written 
by each author. 

Method of Study. 

7. As stated in the title-page and preface, this work is intend- 
ed as a Key to, and to be used in conjunction with, the " Pro- 
gressive Pronouncing French Reader." The student, by the aid 
of the Interlinear literal-and-free translation, and the notes at 
the foot of the page and in the Grammatical Commentary (see 
page 277), is expected to make himself master of the sense of 
the lesson assigned him in the "Pronouncing Reader;" so tho- 
roughly, as to be able, not only to render the French, word for 
word, into English sentences, but also, when examined without 
the book, to give the English for each French word, and again 
the French for each English word, unassisted by the connexion 
of the narrative. 

The length of the lesson will be proportioned to the capacity 
of the learner; but, as a general rule, it may be proper to give 
not more than ten lines for a lesson at first, as, along with the 
preparation of his translation, he is also required to study the 
pronunciation according to the method prescribed in the " Pro- 
nouncing Reader." After the first fable has been mastered by 



EXPLANATION OF THE SIGNS. xix 

slow and easy steps, each lesson may be made to embrace a 
whole fable. 

When the learner has accomplished the study of the Thirty- 
one Fables which occupy the first forty pages of the " Interlinear 
Reader," the author earnestly recommends that he turn back to 
the commencement, and again go over the ground with more 
care — paying particular attention this time to such niceties as 
may have escaped the first perusal, and committing to memory 
the notes in the Grammatical Commentary as they occur. It is 
especially important that he should be thoroughly grounded in 
the introductory portions of the book, inasmuch as in the course 
of it the more important of the Grammatical notes first occur, the 
allusions to which subsequently become gradually less frequent, 
as the student advances, and finally are entirely omitted, when, 
in the author's judgment, they have recurred so frequently that 
a scholar of ordinary capacity and attention must have made 
himself master of them. Hence, the student will observe, that 
a familiar and thorough knowledge of all that has preceded is 
indispensably necessary to a competent understanding of what 
is yet to come. 

8. The above directions have reference to the translation of 
French into English merely, and constitute the ordinary mode 
of using books on the Interlinear system. But the thorough 
study of the genius and distinctive peculiarities of the French 
language may be prodigiously facilitated by the re-translation 
of the English of each lesson into the original French, by the 
following method. 

Let the student, at the time when he learns his lesson, make 
a fair copy of the English translation, in a ruled copy-book 9 
taking care to leave each alternate line blank, and to write the 
words further apart than usual. The brackets, the small figures 
before, and the hyphens between, the words, are to be omitted ; 
and words in italic are to be written in the same character as 
the rest. Then let the teacher, some two or three days after- 
wards, take from him the Interlinear and Pronouncing Reader, 
and require him, in his presence, to write in the copy-book, 
under each English word, the corresponding French word. 



xx METHOD OF STUDY. 

When doing this, let him also connect by hyphens, both in the 
French and English, as the case may be, such words as require 
it, giving the literal rendering, at the foot of the page, of idio- 
matic phrases; in like manner let him enclose the requisite 
words in brackets, underscoring such as have no correspondent 
words in the French, and prefix small figures to those words in 
the English which are not in their natural order. In fine, let 
the student be required, in this exercise, to produce, as nearly as 
he can, a fac-simile of the lesson as he has studied it in the 
Interlinear Reader. This done, the teacher will compare the 
production of the scholar with the original, point out to the 
student the errors in the former, if there be any, and make such 
instructive remarks as the occasion may suggest. 

This exercise should be practised with each lesson throughout 
the book ; and cannot fail, as its least advantage, of enforcing on 
the scholar the absolute necessity of studying his lesson so as to 
master it thoroughly, and of frustrating the manoeuvre by which 
the possessors of a retentive memory oftentimes endeavour to 
escape the requisite mental labour. It will be obvious to every 
one, that, by this process, the student will learn, merely by prac- 
tice, to spell French accurately ; and that by omitting in the fair 
copy the signs, and afterwards, when he writes-in the French, 
inserting them properly, he is, as it were, imperceptibly but 
certainly introduced to a familiar knowledge of the genius, 
idiomatic peculiarities and order of arrangement of words, of the 
French language, contrasted, at the same time, in the most 
pointed manner, with his own. 



INTERLINEAR 

FRENCH READER. 

L 

Le Coche et la Mouche. a Fable. 

The Coach and the Fly, A Fable. 

Dans un chemin montueux et sillonne b d' ornieres, six 

In a road hilly and furrowed with ruts, six 

chevatix tiraient un coche. La chaleur etait grande 

horses were-drawing a coach. The heat was great 

(c' etait vers le milieu du mois de Juin) ; seulement, 

(it was towards the middle of-the month of June). only, 

quelques nuages, disperses sous la route du ciel, inter- 
some clouds, scattered under the vault of-the sky, inter- 

ceptaient parfois les rayons du soleil. L' attelage 

cepted sometimes the rays of-the sun. The team 

suait sang-et-eau*, etait extenue; et le eocher criait 

sweat excessively, was exhausted; and the driver screamed, 

fouettait en vain. Les voyageurs n' en prenaient 

whipped in vain. The travellers ^not sof-that »did-»take 

aucun souci : les-unst jouaient, les autres s'entretenaient c 

<any 'care: some were-playing, the others were-talking 

de choses plus ou moins insignifiantes. Parmi ces 

of things more or less trifling. Among these 

* Sang et eau. Literally, blood and water. 
t Les uns. Literally, the ones. 

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22 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

joyeux personnages se-trouvait* un moine decloitre 

merry personages was an smonk s uncloistered r 

d' un age mur; il avait une face rubiconde et rejouie, 

of [a] *age ^mature; he bad a «face ^rubicund ^and * jovial, 

qui n' annoneait pas un strict observateur du jeune, 

which ^not idid-foretell — a strict observer of [the] fasting, 

II tenait dans sa main un livre fort curieux ; la re- 
He held in his hand a 3 D ook *very ^curious; the bind- 

liure en etait bizarre, et n' attirait pas moins P attention 

ing of-it was fantastical, and — attracted no less [the] attention 

que son contenu : c' etait un recueil de materiaux sans 

than its contents: it was a collection of materials without 

liaison, tel qu' en e font la plupart de ceux qu' 

connexion, such as [of-it] »make Ube ^generality sof *those Hvhon:: 

on f appelle touristes. On-remarquaitt encore un jeune 

^people 'call nourists. There- w as-remarked besides a young 

Ethiopien, d' une figure enjouee ; il portait une longue 

Ethiopian, of a ^countenance x merry; he wore a long 

robe de cachioura, et bredouillait deux ou trois langues. 

robe of Indian-calico, and gabbling two or three languages. 

C etait un garcon peu chiche de ses paroles ; et plus 

He was a fellow very-little sparing of his words ; and more 

s d' une-fois il fatigua la patience du reverend pere par 

than once he tired the patience of-the reverend father by 

son verbiage continuel ; toutefois il s'attiraf les louanges d* 

his ^loquacity ^continual, yet he won the praises of 

une vieille douairiere, dont-le§ visage s' epanouissait 6 aux 

an old dowager, whose face was-enlivened *at-the 

sottises memes qu' il disait. 

^absurdities »even which he said. 

Cependant survient une mouche, avec la louable 

Meanwhile 3 a rrives ia afly, with the laudable 

intention de pousser-a-la-roue||. Elle pretend animer 

intention of helping-them-on. She pretends to-animate 



* Se trouvait. Literally, himself found. 

t On remarquait. Literally, one remarked. 

t S' attira. Literally, to himself drew. 

§ Dont le. Literally, of whom the. 

|| Pousser $l la roue. Literally, to-push to the wheel. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 23 

les chevaux: pique devant, pique derriere, s' assied 

the horses : stings before, stings behind, ^herself *seats 

sur le timon, sur Ja tete du cocher. Aussitot qu' 

on the beam, on the head of-the driver. As-soon as 

«lle voit la machine avancer, elle s' en attribue 

she sees the machine advance, she 5 to-herself *of-it ^ascribes 

la gloire ; va, yient, fait-1'empressee.* Remuant de g 

athe sglory; goes, comes, pretends-to- be-in-earnest. Moving-about on 

sous cotes, ell s'indigne en e voyant la troupe insou- 

all sides, she grows-indignant at seeing the ^company icare- 

€iante, inactive en ce commun besoin : Oui ! dit-elle, 

.less, inactive in this common exigency: Yes! says she, 

sans moi ces gens-la h seraient restes en chemin. 

without me these people-[there] would-be stopped in the road. 

Apres foien* du travail et non moins de x tintouin, le 

After much £of-the] labour and not less — anxiety, the 

coche arrive. Respirons maintenant ! dit la mouche : 

coach arrives. Let-us-breathe now! says the fly: 

j' ai tant couru, tant fait, qu' a-la-fint les voila 

l have ^so-much *run, ^so-much *done, that at- last sthem * behold 

en leur gite. ^a, messieurs, payez-moi de* ma peine. 

in their iodging. Now, gentlemen, pay me for my trouble. 

Ainsi certaines gens s^ introdusient dans les 

Thus certain persons ^themselves *introduee into the 

affaires d' autrui. 

■affairs of others, 



II. 

Le Chien et V Ombre. a Fable. 

The Dog and the Shadow. A Fable. 

Un chieri tenait dans sa gueule un morceau de 

A dog was-holding in his mouth a piece of 

* Fait Feropressee. Literally, makes the hurried. 

t A la fin. Literally, at the end. 

X S' en saisir. Literally, himself of -it to-seize. 

§ S' agite. Literally, itself agitates. 



24 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

viande. En traversant une riviere il vit 1' ombre de 

meat. In crossing a river he saw the shadow of 

sa proie dans P eau, et voulut s'en-saisir* : la viande 

his prey in the water, and wished to-seize-it : the meat 

tombe, et P eau s'agitet; le chien voit qu'il s' 

falls, and the water is-agitated; the dog sees that he shimself 

est trompej; et honteux d'avoir j lache sa proie pour 1' 

*has ^deceived; and ashamed of-having let-go his prey for the 

ombre, il regagne avec peine le bord. 

shadow, he regains »with ^difficulty *the «bank. 

Ne d quittez jamais la substance pour P ombre* 

— ^Relinquish »never the substance for the shadow, 



III. 

Le Renard et les Raisins. Fable. 

The Fox and the Grapes. Ji Fable. 

Certain renard gascon, mourant presque de faim> 

A certain afox *boasting r *dying *almost of hunger. 

vit au haut cP une treille des k raisins murs. II 

sawat-the top of a trellis some [of-the] ^grapes *ripe. He 

en aurait volontiers fait un repas; mais comme 

«of-them »would-have ^willingly smade «a *repast; but as 

il ne pouvait y 1 atteindre, malgre tous ses 

he ^not »was-»able &to-them «to-reach, notwithstanding all hi* 

efTorts : Us sont trop verts, dit-il, en s'en-allant§ ; ils 

efforts: They are too green, said he, in going-away; they 

ne sont bons que pour des goujats. 

»not *are good but for [of-the] mean-fellows. 

Nous meprisons souvent une chose, parce-que nous 

We »despise »often a thing, because we 

ne c pouvons pas P obtenir. 

— are^able »not «it no obtain. 



* 



S* en saisir. Literally, himself of-it to-seize. 
t S' agite. Literally, itself agitates, 
t S' est trompe\ Literally, himself is deceived. 
§ S'en allant. Literally, himself from-it going. See note *. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 25 



IV. 

La Brebis et le Buisson. Fable. 

The Sheep and the Bush. A Fable. 

Une brebis, separee du troupeau, fut surprise par 

A sheep, separated from-the flock, was overtaken by 

un orage« Pour se-mettre-a-1' abri* de la pluie, elle 

a storm. In-order to-shelter-herself from the rain, she 

se fourra dans un buisson epineux; elle y 1 resta 

^herself 'thrust into a *bush 'thorny ; she there remained 

jusqu'a-ce-quet la pluie tut passee. Mais quand elle 

until the rain was gone-by. But when she 

voulut sortir, les epines s' accrocherent a sa 

wished to-come-out, the thorns ^themselves 'fastened to her 

toison; elle perdit ainsi presque toute sa laine. 

fleece; she *lost 'thus almost all her wool. 

En evitant un petit mal, nous tombons quelquefois 

In avoiding a small evil, we fall sometimes 

dans un grand. 

into a great one. 



V. 

L' Ane et le Loup. Fable. 

The Ass and the Wolf. A Fable. 



Un ane rencontra un loup affame. Ayez compassion 

An ass -met a 3 W0 ]f 'famished. Have pity 

de b moi, dit 1' ane tremblant ; je suis un pauvre animal 

on me, said the ^ass 'trembling; I am a poor ^animal 

* Se mettre a 1' abri. Literally, herself to-put to the shelter, 

t Jusqu' a, ce que. Literally, even to that which, 
B 



26 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

malade : regardez quelle epine je me-suis ra -enfoncee* 

isick : look what a thorn I have-thrust 

dans le n pied! — Vraiment, tu me-faist pitie, repliqua 

into [the] my foot ! Truly, thou movest-my pity, replied 

le loup; et je me trouve oblige, en conscience, de 

the wolf: and I ^myself ifind obliged, in conscience, to 

te delivrer de tes douleurs. A-peine eut-il fini de 

«thee ^deliver from thy pains. Scarcely had he ceased to 

parler que 1' ane fut dechire. 

speak when the ass was torn-to-pieces. 

II est inutile de chercher a emouvoir un mechant. 

It is useless to seek to move a wicked person. 



VL 

Le Voleur et le Chien. Fable. 

The Thief and the Dog. A Fable. 

Un voleur tendait un morceau de pain a un chien, 

A thief held a piece of bread to a dog, 

afin qu' il se-tut d . Je vois votre intention, lui 

to-the-end that he might-be-silent. I see your intention, sto-him 

dit le fidele animal : vous me donnez a manger pour 

isaid athe sfaithful «animal : you *me *give to eat in-order 

me faire cesser d' aboyer k ; mais je hais vos dons, 

*me Uo-make cease from barking ; but I hate your gifts, 

et ne veux en recevoir aucun. Allez, passez votre 

and^not *will »of-them areceive <any. Begone, go your 

chemin. 

way. 

Mefiez-vous des fripons, meme lorsqu' ils veulent 

Distrust [of-the] rogues, even when they wish 

vous faire du c bien. 

ayou » to-do [of-the] good. 

* Me suis enfonc6e. Literally, myself am thrust. 
\ Me fais. Literally, me makest. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 27 



VII. 

Le Geai. Fable. 

The Jackdaw. Jl Fable. 

Un geai se para des plumes d" un paon qui 

A jackdaw ^himself ^decked with-the feathers of a peacock which 

muait ; puis alia parmi °d' autres paons se-carrer* : 

was-mouiting ; then went among [of] other peacocks to-strut: 

il croyait etre un personnage d' importance. Mais il 

he thought to-be a person of importance. But he 

fut bientot reconnu, bafoue et siffle b d' etrange sorte : 

was soon recognized, laughed-at and hissed in strange style: 

meme ses pareils, chez lesquels il s'etait m -refugie, le 

even his fellows, among whom he had-taken-shelter, shim 

chasserent en f se-moquant d de* lui, 

ichased while mocking at him. 

Les gens orgueilleux et vains deviennent toujours 

[The] 'people ^haughty *and svain ^become salways 

la risee du public. 

the laughing-stock of-the public. 



VIII. 

IS Avare. Fable. 

The Miser. A Fable. 

Clue je suis malheureux! s'ecriait un avare a son 

How »I , »am ^unhappy! exclaimed a miser to his 

voisin. Ons m' a vole cette nuit le tresor 

neighbour. Some-one *from *me *has ^stolen this last night the treasure 

que j' avais enterre dans mon jardin ; et les coquins out 

which I had buried in my garden ; and the rogues have 
* Se carrer. Literally, himself to-strut. 



28 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

mis une pierre a la place. — Vous n' auriez pas fait 

put a stone at the place. You — *would-shave a not made 

usage de votre tresor, lui repondit le voisin: 

use of your treasure, ^to-him 1 replied *the 'neighbour : 

imaginez-vous* done que la pierre est votre tresor, et 

imagine then that the stone is your treasure, and 

vous n' en serez pas plus-pauvret. 

you — sby-it iwilJ-3be «not ^poorer. 

Il-faut 1 faire un usage raisonnable de ses richesses, 

One-ought to-make a *use reasonable of his riches, 

et non les enfouir. 

and not *them *to-bury. 



IX. 



Le Renard et le Tigre. Fable. 

The Fox and the Tiger. A Fable. 

Je voudrais bien avoir ta vitesse et ta force, disait 

I would-like much to-have thy swiftness and thy strength, said 

un renard au tigre. — Ai-je aucune autre chose qui 

a fox to-the tiger. Havel any other thing which 

puisse te convenir? demanda le tigre.-— Je ne sais.— 

may *thee *suit? asked the tiger. I *notiknow. 

Ma peau, continua le tigre, est aussi r variee que ton 

My skin, continued the tiger, is as variegated as thy 

ame, et 1' exterieur s' adapterait parfaitement a 1' 

soul, and the outside ^itself *wouId-adapt perfectly to the 

interieur. — Je vous suis bien oblige, repliqua le renard: 

inside. I *to-you »am *much aobliged, replied the fox : 

je ne veux pas paraitre ce que je suis. 

I — wish not to-appear that which I am. 

Les apparences sont souvent trompeuses. 

[The] appearances are often deceitful. 



* Imaginez-vous. Literally, imagine-yourself. 
t Plus pauvre. Literally, more poor. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 29 



X. 

Les Bienfaits. Fable. 

[The] Benefits. A Fable. 

As-tu parmi les animaux un plus-grand 8 bienfaiteur 

Hast thou among [the] animals a greater benefactor 

que nous ? demanda un jour 1' abeille a y P homme. 

than we? demanded sone 4 day *the abee from the man. 

Certainement ! repondit celui-ci*. — Et lequel ? — La 

Certainly! answered the-latter. And which? The 

brebis: car sa laine m' est necessaire, tandis-que ton 

sheep: for her wool no-me *is 2 necessary, while thy 

miel m' est seulement agreable. D'ailleurs la brebis 

honey *to-me *is «only sagreeable. Besides the sheep 

me donne sa laine sans la moindre difficulty ; mais 

a me *gives her wool without the least difficulty; but 

quand tu me donnes ton miel je dois toujours craindre 

when thou ^rae igivest thy honey I need always to-fear 

ton aiguillon. 

thy sting. 

Il-faut^ preferer V utile a 1' agreable. 

We-ought to-prefer the useful to the agreeable. 



XL 

La Poule Aveugle. Fable. 

The aHen *Blind. A Fable. 

Une poule etait de venue aveugle. Elle avait-coutumet 

A hen was become blind. She was accustomed 

de gratter pour chercher sa nourriture: Elle ne° 

to scratch in-order to-seek her nourishment: She — 



* Celui-ci. Literally, this-here. 

t Avait coutume. Literally, had custom. 



30 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

cessa pas de le faire, bien-qu' elle eut perdu la 11 vue. 

ceased not to *it 'do, although she had lost her sight. 

Que lui servait de travailler ? A cote-d'elle* se-trouvaitt 

What ^her 'availed to work ? At her-side was 

une poule clairvoyante ; mais celle-cij ne grattait pas, 

a ahen iclear-sighted ; but the latter snot 'was scratching — , 

afin de menager ses pieds delicats : elle vivait du 

in-order to spare her afeet ^delicate : she lived by-the 

travail de l'autre : car aussi souvent que 1' aveugle 

labour of the other : for as often as the blind 

deterrait un grain, la clairvoyante 1' avalait. 

hen dug-out a grain, the clear-sighted one ^it ^swallowed. 

Les gens laborieux travaillent souvent pour les 

[The] ^people 'industrious ^work toften for [the] 

autres. 

others. 



XII. 

Les deux Coqs. Fable. 

The two Cocks. A Fable. 

Deux coqs se-battaient d pour un fumier. Le combat 

Two cocks were-fighting for a dung-hill. The combat 

fut sanglant, et se-maintint d long temps avec un 

was bloody, and was-maintained a long time with [an] 

avantage egal de-part-et-d'autre§. Enfln 1' un des 

^advantage 'equal on-both-sides. At-last [the] one of-the 

combattants se-retire d , et s' avoue vaincu : il 

combatants retreats, and shimself 'confesses vanquished: he 

va, demi-mort, cacher sa honte dans le fond du 

goes, half-dead, to-hide his shame in the depth of-the 

poulailler; 1' autre, tout glorieux, va chanter sa 

hen-house ; the other, quite proud, goes to-sing his 



* Cote (Telle. Literally, side of-her. 

t Se trouvait. Literally, herself found, 

X Celle-ci. Literally, this-here. 

§ De part et d' autre. Literally, of part and of other. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 21 

victoire sur le sommet d' une maison. Un vautour, 

victory on the top of a house. A vulture, 

qui planait dans 1' air, apercoit le fanfaron qui 

which was-hovering in the air, perceives the coxcomb who 

se-battait d les n cotes de ses ailes ; comme un trait, il 

was-clapping his sides with his wings; like an arrow, he 

fond sur lui et i' emporte dans ses serres. 

pounces upon him and *him *carries-*away in his talons. 

Tout vainqueur insolent travaille a sa perte : il-faut* 

Every ^conqueror ^insolent works to his ruin ; one-ought 

etre modeste apres la victoire. 

to-be modest after £the] victory. 



XIIL 

Le Chene et le Pore. Fable. 

The Oak and the Pig. A Fable. 

Un pore s' engraissait sous un chene avec le 

A pig shimself iwas-cramming under an oak with the 

fruit qui en tombait. Pendant-qu' il machait un 

fruit which 2from-it *fell. While he was-chewing one 

gland, il en u devorait un-autre des n yeux. Ingrat! 

acorn, he 4 one 'devoured *an Soiher with-his eyes. Ingrate ! 

S* ecrie d 1' chene, tu te nourris de mon fruit sans 

exclaims the oak, thou ^thyself *feedest with my fruit without 

porter* un seul regard de reconnaissance vers moi. 

directing a single look of gratitude towards me. 

Le pore s' arreta un moment, et grogna pour 

The pig himself stopped a moment, and grunted for 

reponse : Ma reconnaissance ne manquerait pas e , 

answer: My gratitude 2not iwould- 8 be-*wanting, — 

si tu laissais tomber tes glands pour 1' amour-de-moi*. 

if thou didst-let sfali Uhy «acerns for my-sake. 

Ons ne e doit pas s' attendre 4 a la reconnaissance 

People — ought not to-expect [to] [the] gratitude, 

quand on fait du bien sans le vouloir k . 

when they do [of- the] good without *it * wishing. 

* L' amour de moL Literally, the love of me. 



32 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



XIV. 

Le Rossignol et le Prince. Fable. 

The Nightingale and the Prince. Jl Fable. 

Un jeune prince se-promenait d avec son gouverneur 

A young prince was-walking with his tutor 

dans un bocage. II vit un rossignol qui chantait, et 

in a grove. He saw a nightingale which was-singkig, and 

voulut 1' attraper; mais le chantre des forets V aper^oit 

wished «it ato-catch ; but the chorister of-the forests ahim ^perceives 

et s' envole d . Pourquoi done, dit son altesse en colere? 

and flies-away. Why [then], said his highness in anger, 

le plus aimable des oiseaux est-il si farouche? 

nhe smost ^amiable uof-[the] ebirds *is — so wild? 

Pourquoi se tient-il dans les bois, tandis-que mon palais 

Why shimself ^keeps ^he in the woods, whilst my palace 

est rempli de moineaux? C est, lui dit le Mentor? 

is filled with sparrows? It is, *to-him *said «the >Mentor, 

afin de vous instruire de ce qu' un jour vous devez 

m-order to *you ^apprize of that which »one 4 day *you *must 

eprouver: les sots savent se produire; mais 

experience: [the] fools know how nhemselvesno-aput^forward; but 

les hommes de merite se cachent, il-faut 

[the] men of merit ^themselves t bide > it-is-necessary 

les aller chercher. 

nhem Uo-go ato-seek. 



XV. 
Les Frelons et les Abeilles. Fable. 

The Hornets and the Bees. A Fable. 

Quelques rayons de T miel se-trouvaient sans maitre* 

Some combs of honey happened-to-be without owner. 

Des c frelons les reclamerent ; mais des c 

Some [of-the] hornets »them ^claimed; but some [of-the] 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 33 

abeilles s' etant* opposees a la reclamation, la 

bees ^themselves ^having ^opposed to the claim, the 

cause fut portee devant une guepe. La chose etait 

cause was carried before a wasp. The affair was 

difficile a decider: car les temoins deposaient qu' ils 

difficult to decide : for the witnesses deposed that they 

avaient vu autour de x ces rayons des animaux 

had seen about — these combs some [of-the] animals 

ailes, bourdonnant ; qu' ils etaient un-peut longs, et de 

winged, buzzing ; that they were rather long, and of 

couleur fort tannee : les abeilles se reconnurent 

acolour ivery stawny: the bees ^themselves ^recognized 

a y cette description, et les frelons aussi. La guepe, 

by this description, and the hornets also. The w T asp, 

embarrassee, fit une nouvelle enquete, et entendit 

embarrassed, made a new investigation, and heard some 

des fourmis. L' affaire n' en put etre eclaircie. 

[of-the] ants. The affair a n ot sby them icould she ^cleared-up. 

De-grace, dit une abeille fort sage, a-quoi-bonl ces 

Pray, said a abee *very swise, for-what-purpose these 

debats ? Depuis pres de x six mois que la cause est 

debates? For nearly — six months that the cause is 

pendante, nous voici z comme auparavant ; et pendant ce 

pending, we are as before ; and during this 

temps-la 1 le miel se-gate§ : travaillons, les frelons et 

time [there] the honey is-spoiling: let-us-work, the hornets and 

nous ; et *1' on verra qui sait faire un miel 

we ; and — people will-see who knows how to-make [a] honey 

si doux, et des cellules si bien baties. Le refus des 

so sweet, and [of-the] cells so well built. The refusal of-the 

frelons fit voir qu' ils ignoraient cet art; 

hornets imade 3 S ee ^people that they were-ignorant-of that art ; 

et la guepe adjugea le miel aux abeilles. 

and the wasp adjudged the honey to-the bees. 



* Etant. Literally, being. See note m 

t Un pen. Literally, a little. 

X A quoi bon. Literally, to what good. 

§ Se g&te. Literally, itself spoils. 

3 



34 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

A P ceuvre on connait P ouvrier*. 

At [the] work we know the workman. 



XVI. 

L 9 Ours et les deux Chasseurs. Fable. 

The Bear and the two Hunters. A Fable. 

Deux chasseurs, presses d" argent, allerent chez 

Two hunters, pressed for money, went to-the-house-of 

un fourreur, et lui vendirent la peau d' un ours encore 

a furrier, and shim *sold the skin of a bear still 

vivant; mais ils promirent de le tuer sous-peut. A? 

living; but they promised to »him »kill shortly. By 

leur compte, c' etait un-ours-des-plus-beauxj : sa peau 

their account, it was a-most-beautiful-bear: his skin 

garantirait des froids les-plus aa cuisants. S' 

would-protect from-the 3 C olds imost ^piercing. ^Themselves 

offrant de la livrer dans deux jours au plus-tard, ils 

^pledging to ^it ideliver in two days at latest, they 

conviennent de b prix, et s' en-vont a la recherche de b 

agree on price, and go-away to the search for 

P animal. Bientot ils le trouvent, le tirent, et le 

the animal. Soon they ^him *find, ^him *shoot-at and ^him 

manque nt. Frappes de terreur, P un grimpe sur un 

imiss. Struck with terror, [the] one climbs up a 

arbre ; P autre avait oui dire que cette bete ne e 

tree ; the other had heard say ihat that animal — 

touche pas les corps morts : il se couche sur le n 

does-^toucli inot [the] ^bodies idead : he ^himself Uays-down on his 

nez, fait le mort, retient son haleine. L' ours, 

nose, acts the dead man, holds-in his breath. The bear, 

comme un sot, vient a lui, le tourne, le flaire, et 

like a fool, comes to him, «him Uurns, ^\\\m »smells, and 



* This corresponds with the English proverb, The workman is 
known by his work. 

t Sous peu. Literally, under little. 

t Un ours des plus beaux. Literally, a bear of-the more beautiful. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 35 

le croit sans vie. C est un cadavre, dit-il; 

»him ^believes without life. It is a corpse, said he; 

6tons-nous d , car il sent. A ces mots, il s' enfonce 

let-us-go-away, for it smells. At these words, he ^himself iburies 

dans la foret. L' un des chasseurs descend de 

in the forest. [The] one of-the hunters descends from 

son arbre, court a son compagnon, et lui dit : 

his tree, runs to his companion, and ^to-him »says ; 

Camarade, il-fauti nous-passer-de* sa* peau, bien 

Comrade, we-must do-without his skin, very 

heureux d' en etre quittes pour la peur. 

fortunate to 'of-it *be sdear for the fright. 

II ne faut pas vendre la peau de 1' ours avant 

One — ought not to-sell the skin of the bear before 

de x 1' avoir k terrasse. 

— shim ^having afeiied. 



XVII. 

Le Corheau et le Renard. Fable. 

The Raven and the Fox. A Fable. 

Un corbeau, perche sur les branches d' un chene, 

A raven, perched on the branches of an oak, 

tenait un fromage dans son bee. Un renard, attire 

was-holding a cheese in his beak. A fox, allured 

par P odeur, lui adressa la parole en ces termes : 

by the odour, sto-him addressed [the] a discourse in these words: 

Mes tres humbles respects a M. le corbeau ; je suis 

My very humble respects to Mr. [the] raven; I am 

charme que cette occasion me procure 1' avantage de 

charmed that this occasion ^me ^procures the advantage of 

faire* votre connaissance. J' ai sou vent entendu dire 

making your acquaintance. I have often heard say 

que la renommee etait une menteuse ; maintenant, j' 

that [the] fame was a liar; now, I 



* Nous passer de. Literally, ourselves to-pass of. 



36 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

en ai la certitude; car on s dit que vous etes noir 

«of-it ihave 9 the acertainty ; for they say that you are black 

comme 1' ebene ; moi, je vous vois plus-blanc s que la 

as [the] ebony ; I, I *you *see whiter than the 

neige. Vous surpassez, selon-moi*, le cygne en 

snow. You surpass, in-my-opinion, the swan in 

blancheur et en beaute ; et si votre voix se-rapporte d a 

whiteness and in beauty; and if your voice answers to 

votre plumage, vous etes, sans contredit, le roi de 

your plumage, you are, without contradiction, the king of 

tous les oiseaux. Le corbeau, ravi de ce compli- 

all the birds. The raven, delighted with this compli- 

ment, ouvre le n bee pour faire-entendret sa voix, et 

ment, opens his beak in-order to-make-sheard *his »voice, and 

laisse tomber son fromage. Le renard s' en-saisitj, et 

lets afall ihis ^cheese. The fox seized-it, and 

F avala ; puis il se-mit a rire du corbeau, qui avait 

sit swallowed; then he began to laugh at-the raven, who had 

eu la betise de 1' ecouter. 

had the folly to ^him ^listen-to. 

Tout flatteur vit aux depens de celui qui 1' 

Every flatterer lives at-the expense of him who shim 

ecoute. 

»listens-to. 



XVIII. 

Le Loup sur son Lit de v Mort. Fable. 

The Wolf on his *Bed [of] iDeath. A Fable. 

Un loup, a son heure derniere, jetait un regard 

A wolf, at his *hour *last, cast a *view 

scrutateur sur sa vie passee. Je suis certainement un 

^scrutinizing over his ^life *past. I am certainly a 



* Selon moi. Literally, according to-me. 

t Faire entendre. Literally, to-make to-hear. 

t S' en saisit. Literally, himself of-it seized. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 37 

grand pecheur, disait-il; mais il* en est* de 

great sinner, said he; but there *some *are [of] 

plus-grands 8 encore. J' ai fait du c mal, il est vrai ; 

greater still. I have done [of-the] evil, it is true; 

mais j' ai fait aussi beaucoup de bien. Une fois, je 

but I have *done *also a-great-deal of good. One time, I 

me rappelle, un agneau, qui s'etait m -egare du 

ame ^remember, a lamb, that had-strayed from-the 

troupeau, vint a moi belant ; j' aurais bien pu 

flock, came to me bleating ; I should-have ^wett ibeen-able 

T etrangler, et je ne lui fis rien. Dans 

ahim no-strangle, and I ^not sto-him idid-'do ^anything. At 

le meme temps j' entendis, avec une indifference digne 

the same time I heard, with an indifference worthy 

d' admiration, les railleries et les injures d' une brebis ; 

of admiration, the jeerings and the outrages of a sheep, 

et je n' avais a craindre aucun chien qui putt 

and I snot xnac * t0 & ar anv dog which was-able 

la proteger. Je puis attester tout ce que tu 

sher Uo-protect. I am-able to-attest all that which thou 

dis, interrompit un renard, son ami, qui le pre- 

sayest, interrupted a fox, his friend, who shim ipre- 

parait a la mort; car je me souviens tres-bien de 

pared for [the] death ; for I a me iremember very- well of 

toutes les circonstances : c' etait dans le temps que 

all the circumstances: it was at the time that 

tu t' etranglais avec un os, que la grue 

thou ^thyself iwert-strangling with a bone, which the acrane 

bienfaisante te-tira du n gosier. 

tgenerous drew from-thy throat. 

Les mechants appellent bien, le mal qu' ils n' ont 

The wicked call good, the evil which they — have 

pas pu faire. 

not been-able to-do. 



* II est Literally, it is. An impersonal verb, 
t Put. Literally, might-be-able. 



38 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



XIX. 

Jupiter et la Brebis. Fable. 

Jupiter and the Sheep. A Fable; 

La brebis fut exposee a souffrir de tous les animaux. 

The sheep was exposed to suffer with all the animals. 

Alors elle alia devant Jupiter, et le pria d' adoucir 

Then she went before Jupiter, and shim grayed to soften 

sa misere. Le pere des dieux ecouta sa priere, 

her misery. The father of-the gods listened-to her prayer, 

et lui dit: Je t' ai creee sans defense, il est 

and to-her said : I athee *have treated without defence, it is 

vrai; mais je puis remedier a ce defaut. Veux-tu 

true ; but I am-able to-remedy [to] that defect. Wishest thou 

que j' arme ta bouche de dents terribles, et tes 

that I should-arm thy mouth with <Heeth Uerrible, and thy 

pieds de griffes cruelles? — O ! non, je ne e veux rien 

feet with ^claws *cruel? O! no, I — wish ^nothing 

avoir de commun avec les animaux carnassiers. — 

no-have in common with [the] ^animals ^carnivorous. 

Faut-il que je mette du poison dans ta salive ? 

Needs it that I should-put [of-the] poison into thy saliva? 

-—Ah! les serpents venimeux sont si detestes ! — Que 

Ah! [the] Serpents ^venomous are so detested! What 

faut-il done que je fasse? je vais planter des 

needs it then that I should-do? I am-going to-plant [of-the] 

comes sur ton front, et donner de la force a 

horns on thy forehead, and to-give [of] [the] strength to 

ton cou. — Ni cela non-plus*, bienfaisant pere! je 

thy neck. Nor that either, beneficent father! I 

craindrais de devenir k aussi hargneuse que le bouc. 

should-bo-afraid of becoming as peevish as the he-goat. 

Il-faut, pourtant, dit Jupiter, que je te donne 

It-is-necessary, however, said Jupiter, that I »thee *should-give 

le pouvoir de nuire, si les autres doivent se 

the power of hurting, if [the] others must ^themselves 

* Non plus. Literally, not more. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 39 

garder de te nuire. II le ab faut ! soupira la brebis. 

^restrain from Hhee ^hurting. It 2 S o imust-be! sighed the sheep. 

Cela etant, j' aime mieux rester comme je suis : car 

This being so, I like better to-remain as I am: for 

je crains que ce pouvoir ac n' eveille en moi V envie 

I fear Jest that power — should-awake in me the desire 

de faire du mal. 

of doing [of-the] evil. 

II vaut mieux souffrir des injustices que d' 

It is-[worth] better to-sufler [of-the] injuries than to 

en faire, 

[ofj-athem ido. 



XX. 

Le Grillon. Fable. 

The Cricket. A Fable. 

Un grillon, cache dans 1' herbe, regardait un 

A cricket, hid in the grass, was-looking-at a 

papillon qui voltigeait dans une prairie. L' insecte 

butterfly which was-flying in a meadow. The ^insect 

aile brillait des plus aa vives couleurs ; F azur, 

iwinged glittered with-the most vivid colours; [the] azure, 

le pourpre et 1' or eclataient sur ses ailes; jeune, 

[the] purple and [the] gold sparkled on his wings ; young, 

beau, il vole de fleur en fleur, prenant et quittant 

beautiful, he flies from flower to flower, seizing and quitting 

les plus belles. Ah ! disait le grillon, que son sort et 

the most beautiful. Alas! said the cricket, *how *his *Iot «and 

le-rnien ad sont differents. La nature a tout fait pour 

'mine aare ^different! [The] nature has aall idone for 

lui, et pour moi rien. Je n' ai point de talent, 

him, and ^for 3 me inothing. I ^no *have 4 at-all — stalent, 

nul ne prend garde a moi : autant-vaudrait- ne-pas 

no-one — takes notice of me: it-is-the-same-as not 



* Autant vaudrait. Literally, as-much would-be-wortk. 



40 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

exister. Comme il parlait, arrive une troupe <T enfants : 

to-exist. As he spoke, sarrives *a stroop sof ^children: 

ils courent apres ce papillon dont ils ont tous 

they run after this butterfly for-which they have all a 

envie. Chapeaux, mouchoirs, bonnets, servent* a 1' 

desire. Hats, handkerchiefs, caps, are-used to shim 

attraper. II est pris, et bientot ils lui dechirent 

*catch. He is caught, and soon they [to-him] tear-off 

les n ailes, et 1' ecrasent sous leurs pieds. Oh ! oh ! 

his wings, and^him *crush under their feet. Oh! oh! 

dit le grillon, je ne suis plus si fache ; il ent coute 

said the cricket, I ano Jam longer so angry ; it — costs 

trop cher pour briller dans le monde. 

too dear to shine in the world. 

Pour vivre heureux, il-faut vivre dans 1' 

To live happy, we-ought to-live in [the] 

obscurite. 

obscurity. 



XXL 

La Brebis et le Chien. Fable. 

The Sheep and the Dog. A Fable. 

La brebis et le chien se ae racontaient un jour 

The sheep and the dog ato-each-other ^recounted one day 

leurs infortunes. Ah! disait la brebis, je pleure et je 

their misfortunes. Alas! said the sheep, I weep and \ 

fremis, quand je songe aux malheurs de notre destinee. 

shudder, when I think of-the misfortunes of our destiny. 

Toi, qui es 1' esclave de 1' homme, tu lui es 

Thou, who art the slave of [the] man, thou eto-him »art 

toujours soumis et fldele ; pourtant tu re^ois souvent 

^always asubmissive 4 and efaithful ; for-all-that thou *receivest toften 



* Servcnt. Literally, serve. 

f En is an expletive here, as in the following sentence : H en est 
des femmes comme des enfants — It is with women as with children. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 41 

des coups et quelquefois la mort. Moi, je 1' 

[of-the] blows and sometimes [the] death. I, I *him 

habille tous-les-ans*, je lui donne du c kit et je 

iclothe every-year, I ^him igive [of-the] milk and I 

fume ses champs ; malgre tout cela je vois chaque 

manure his fields; in-spite-of all that I 3gee *every 

matin quelqu' un de ma famille assassine par lui. 

^morning some one of my family assassinated by him. 

Nous travaillons pour lui seul, et mourons par ses 

We work for him alone, and die by his 

mains ; voila notre destin funeste ! II est vrai, dit le 

hands ; this-is our destiny »fatal ! It is true, says the 

chien ; mais crois-tu qu' il soit af plus s -heureux que nous ? 

dog ; but believest thou that he is happier than we 7 

Va, ma soeur, il vaut encore mieux souffrir le mal 

Go, my sister, it is-[worth] yet better to-suffer [the] evil 

que de le faire. 

than to »it *do. 



XXII 

La Laitiere et le Pot an Lait. Fable. 

The Milk-woman and the spot [to-the] iMilk. A Fable. 

Jeannette, ayant un pot au lait sur la tete, allait 

Jeannette, having a spot [to the] *milk upon her head, went 

gaiement au marche. Elle etait legerement vetue : 

gaily to [the] market. She was lightly clothed : 

elle avait mis ce jour -la sa robe courte, son tablier 

she had put-on that day [there] her ^gown ishort, her ^apron 

blanc et ses souliers a simple semelle, et marchait 

iwhite and her shoes with single sole, and was-walking 

a grands pas vers la ville. Elle comptait en elle- 

with great steps towards the city. She was-counting in her- 

meme le prix de son lait; en employait 1' argent; 

self the price of her milk; 4 of-it iwas-employing ^the ^money ; 
* Tous les ans. Literally, all the years. 



42 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

achetait un cent d'osufs; faisait triple couvee. J' ache- 

was-buying one hundred of eggs; was-getting treble brood. I will- 

terai une poule, disait-elle ; j' aurai des poulets ; il 

buy one hen, said she; I will-have [of-the] chickens; it 

me sera facile de les elever dans la cour ; le renard 

sfor-me * will-be ^easy to *them lraise i* 1 tne yard; the fox 

sera bien ruse s' il en approche. Mes poulets 

shall-be very cunning if he ^ f-it lapproaches. My chickens 

vendus, j' acheterai un cochon; je 1' engraisserai avec 

sold, I will-buy a pig; I 2 him nvill-fatten with 

du son. Je pourrai en le revendant mettre dans 

[of-the] bran. I shall-be-able in ahim ^selling again to-place in 

notre etable une vache et son veau : avec quel 

our stable a cow and her calf: with what 

plaisir je le verrai sauter ! La-dessus Jeannette 

pleasure I *him *will-see jump! Thereupon Jeannette 

saute aussi, transported de joie : le lait tombe ; adieu 

jumps also, transported with joy: the milk falls; adieu 

veau, vache, cochon et poulets. 

calf, cow, pig and chickens. 

Qui ne fait, ainsi que la laitiere, des chateaux 

Who anot imakes, as-well as the milk-woman, [of-the] castles 

en Espagne? 

in Spain ? 



XXIII. 



Le Loup et V Agneau. Fable. 

The Wolf and the Lamb. A Fable. 

Un agneau se-desalterait dans un clair ruisseau. 

A lamb was-quenching-his-thirst in a clear rivulet. 

Un loup vint au meme endroit, presse par la faim. 

A wolf came to-the same place, pressed by [the] hunger. 

Qui te rend si hardi de troubler mon breuvage ? dit 

Who *thee unakes so bold to muddy my drink ? says 

ce feroce animal. Tu seras chatie de ta temerite. 

that ferocious animal. Thou shalt-be chastised for thy temerity. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 43 

Monsieur, repond ]' agneau tremblant, ne vous 

Sir, answers the lamb trembling, — ayourself 

mettez pas en colere ; mais considerez que je bois 

iput ^not in a passion ; but consider that I drink 

plus de vingt pas au-dessous de vous ; et que parcon- 

more than twenty steps below — you; and that con- 

Sequent je ne puis troubler votre boisson. Tu la 

sequently 1 s n ot *can muddy your drink. Thou *it 

troubles ! reprit cette bete cruelle ; et je sais que tu 

^muddiest ! replied that *beast icruel ; and I know that thou 

as mal parle de moi 1' an dernier. — Comment 1' 

hast 'ill ispoken of me [the] *year Mast. — How sit 

aurais-je fait ? Je n' etais pas ne. — Si ce n' est 

icould- 3 have ^I 4done? I — was not born. — If it *not *w 

toi, c' est done ton frere ? — Je n' en ai point. — C 

thou, it-is then thy brother? — I — »any ihave a n ot. — It 

est quelqu'un de ta famille ; car je sais que vous ne 

is some-one of thy family; for I know that you — 

m' epargnez pas. On me 1' a dit : il-faut que 

3me ispare not. Some-one *to-me 3 it *has stold : it-is-necessary that 

je me venge. A ces mots, le loup saisit 1' innocent 

I ^myself *should-revenge. At these words, the wolf seizes the innocent 

agneau, 1' emporte dans la foret voisine et le 

lamb, shim *carries-away into the ^forest ^neighbouring and^him 



mange. 

leats. 



La raison du plus-fort est toujours la meilleure. 

The reason of-the strongest is always the best. 



XXIV. 



Les Singes et le Leopard. Fable. 

The Monkeys and the Leopard. Jl Fable. 



Des singes dans un bois jouaient a la 

Some [of-the] monkeys in a wood were-playing at ("the] 



U COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

main-chaude*; une guenon, assise gravement, tenait 

hot-cockles; a she-monkey, seated gravely, held 

sur elle la tete de celui qui se courbait et 

upon herself the head of him who ^himself *bent and 

recevait les coups sur sa main. On frappait fort; et s' 

received the blows on his hand. They struck hard; and if 

il ne devinait point, on riait, on sautait, on 

he — idid-sguess «not, they laughed, they jumped, they 

gambadait. Un jeune leopard fut attire par le bruit 

gambolled. A young leopard was attracted by the noise 

du fond de sa taniere. II se presente au 

from-the depth of his den. He ^himself ^presents in-the 

milieu des singes, qui tremblent tous a son aspect. 

middle of-the monkeys, who ^tremble *all at his appearance. 

Continuez vos jeux, leur dit-il; rassurez-vous: je 

Continue your sports, no-them isaid-he ; reassure yourselves : I 

suis de la partie. — Ah, quelle condescendance ! quoi ! 

am of the party. Ah, what condescension! how! 

vous voulez nous faire cet honneur? — Oui, c' est 

you are-willing 2 U s *to-do this honour? Yes, it is 

mon plaisir. Allons, jouons, je vous prie. Les 

my pleasure. Come, let-us-play, I ayou ^beg. The 

singes sont enchantes, et la troupe joviale se 

monkeys are enchanted, and the atroop imerry ^itself 

remet a jouer. L' un d' eux tend la n main, le 

ssets-sagain to play. [The] one of them holds his hand, the 

leopard frappe, et soudain on voit couler du c sang 

leopard strikes, and presently they see ^run [of-the] iblood 

sous sa griffe. Le singe devina qui frappait; mais 

under his claw. The monkey guessed who struck; but 

il s'en-alla sans le dire. Ses compagnons font 

he went-away without ^it ^saying. His companions make 

semblant de rire, et bientot chacun s' excuse 

pretence to laugh, and soon every-one ^himself ^excuses 

et s' echappe a la hate, en se ae disant : II 

and escapes in [the] haste, [in] *to-each-other raying: It 

est toujours dangereux de jouer avec les grands. 

is always dangerous to play with the great. 

Main-chaude. Literally, hand hot. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 45 



he Sanglier et les Rossignols. Fable* 

The Wild-Boar and the Nightingales. A Fable. 

Un homme riche, sot et vain, croyait avoir 

A sman ^wealthy, sfoolish s and *vain, believed himself to-have 

un gout exquis pour les arts, et pensait que son or 

an ^taste ^exquisite for the arts, and 7 thought that Iks gold 

lui donnait du genie. Chaque jour on^ voyalt 

>to-him igave [of-the] ^genius. Every day people saw 

a sa table des peintres, des sculpteurs, des savants, 

.at his table [of-the] painters, [of-the] sculptors, [of-the] learned 

des artistes, des beaux-esprits. Ces messieurs 

wren, [of-the] artists, [of-the] wits. Those gentlemen 

lui prodiguaient Jeurs hommages,* ecoutaient ses 

«on~him ^lavished their homage, listened-to his 

eonseils, et I' appelaient Mecene, en mangeant son 

counsels, and^him ^called & Maecenas, while eating his 

diner. Se-promenant un soir dans son pare, suivi d' 

dinner. Walking one evening in his park, followed by 

•an jardinier, il vit un sanglier qui labourait la 

a gardener, he saw a wild-boar who was-ploughing-up the 

terre, et autour de s lui des c merles, des 

earth, and around — him some [of-the] blackbirds, some [of-the] 

lauvettes, des rossignols, qui voltigeaient, 

tomtits, some [of-the] nightingales, who fluttered-about, 

s' arretaient, et le suivaient en chantant. L' 

stopped, and shim ^followed [in] singing. The 

animal ag a soies ecoutait le ramage liarmonieux 

animal with bristles listened-to the ^warbling ^harmonious 

avec la gravite d' un connaisseur : il baissait parfois 

with the gravity of a connoisseur: he ^bowed ^occasionally 

la n hure en signe de faveur, ou la secouait pour 

his head in token of favour, or sit * shook to 



* Hommages. Literally, homages, plural. 



46 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

refuser son suffrage. Que veut-dire* ceci ? dit le ri- 

refuse his approbation. What means this? said the rich- 

chard : comment ! les chantres des bois ont choisi cet 

man: how! sthe achoristers *of~the E woods *have chosen this* 

animal pour leur juge? — Non-pas, repond le jardinier: 

animal for their judge ? Not. -so, answers the gardener : 

ils ne le suivent que pour manger les rers qu' il 

they — 2 him * follow only in-order to-eat the worms which he 

fait sortir de la terre en labourant; mais V 

causes to-issue from the ground while ploughing-up ; but tfee 

imbecille croit que c J est pour son merite. 

simpleton believes that it is an-account-of his merit*. 



XXVI. 



Les Enfants ef les Perdreaux. Fable* 

The Children and the Young-Partridges. A Fable. 



Deux enfants d' un fermier, gentils, espiegles, mais ur* 

Two children of a farmer, pretty, waggish, but a 

peu gates, cherchaient des c nids dans leur enclos. 

little spoiled, were-seeking [of-the] nests in their paddock, 

lis trouverent de° petits perdreaux qui 

They found some [of! little young-partridges which 

voletaient apres leur mere. Voila> mes deux bambini 

fluttered after their mother. Behold my two Iitlle-boy3 

apres la troupe qui s' eparpille. lis courent 

after the troop which itself iscatters-sabout. They run 

de tous cotes. La perdrix, trainant n P aile, appelle 

in all directions. The partridge, trailing her wing, calls 

en vain ses petits; ils sont tous empouches, 

•in «vain »her ^little *ones ; they are all pocketed. 






1 Veut dire. Literally, wishes to-say. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 47 

II -s' agit* de les partager; c' est le point delicat. 

The-business-is to »them »divide ; it is the *point 'delicate. 

Chacun en garde six, il en u reste un 

Each 3of-them 'keeps =asix, [it] there *one 'remains *a 

treizieme : 1' aine le veut, 1' autre le veut aussi. 

^thirteenth,' the eldest *it 'wants, the other sit 'wants also. 

Tirons a la courte paillet. — Non. — Si. — Cede, 

Let-us-draw for the short straw. No. Yes, Yield, 

€u-bien± tu verras. — Tu verras toi-meme. 

otherwise thou shalt-see. Thou shait-see thyself. 

De-propos-en-propos§, V aine jette a la tete de son 

Words - followed - words, the eldest throws at the head of his 

frere le perdreau en dispute. Le cadet, en 

brother the young-partridge in dispute. The younger-brother, in 

colere, riposte avec un des-siens ad . L' aine 

anger, retaliates with one of - his. The eldest 

recommence ; et bientot la terre est couverte de 

recommences] and soon the ground is covered with 

perdreaux palpitants* Le fermier, qui passait, 

"-^young-partridges ^palpitating. The farmer, who was-passing, 

voit ce spectacle sanguinaire, et dit a ses enfants : 

sees this Spectacle 'sanguinary, and says to his children : 

Comment done! petits droles, vos discordes sont 

What then! little rogues, your dissensions are the 

cause que tant d' innocents expirent! Et quel droit, 

cause thatso-many — innocents expire! And what right, 

s' il vous plait, aviez-vous sur leur vie? 

if it *you 'pleases, had you over their life? 

Ainsi les hommes perissent victimes des 

In-like-manner [the] men perish victims of-the 

querelles des rois. 

quarrels of-[the] kings. 



* II s' agit. Literally, it itself acts, 

t Tirons & la courte paille. The English expression is, Let us 
draw cuts. 

t Ou bien. Literally, or well. 

§ De-propos-en-propos. Literally from words in words. 



48 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 



XXVIL 

La Colombe et la Fourmi. Fable. 

The Dove and the Ant. j3 Fable. 

Une colombe buvait dans un clair ruisseau, Dans 

A dove was-drinking in a clear rivulet. At 

le meme temps line fourmi, non loin de la> 

the same time an ant, not far from there, 

se-penche et tombe dans V eau. Elle s 9 efibrce, mai> 

stoops and falls into the water. She endeavours, but 

en vain, de regagner la rive; elle va perir si 

in vain, to regain the bank; she is-going to-perish if 

personne ne vole a son secours* La colombe aussitot 

no-body — flies to her assistance. The dove immediately 

usa* de charite ; elle jette un brin d 9 herbe dans Y 

acted wich charity ; she throws a blade of grass into the 

eau : la fourmi s T y accroche, et echappe au 

water: the ant ^herself no-it *attaehes, and escapes from-the- 

peril imminent qui la menacait. Un moment apres 

?peril ^imminent which r 4\et ^threatened. A moment afterwards 

passe un paysan qui marchait nu-pieds : il allait ai 

spasses *a ^peasant who was-walking barefoot: he w as-going to 

la chasse avec une arbalete. Des qu' il voit V oiseai* 

the chase with a cross-bow. As-soon as he sees the bird 

de Venus, il le croit dans son pot, et s' apprete 

of Venus, he 2 it nhinks in his pot, and ^himself ^preparer 

a le tuer ; mais la fourmi le pique au talon, et le 

to »it »kill; but the ant *him *stings in-the heel, and »him. 

fait trepigner: la colombe F entend, et tire-de-longt, 

^causes to-stamp: the dove *him shears, and flies-away. 

II faut, autant qu' on peut, oblige* 

One ought, as-much as he can, to-obligt 



* Usa. Literally, used, 

t Tire-de-long. Literally, draws of long. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 49 

tout-le-monde* : on a souvent besoin d' un plus-petit 

every-body: he shas *often need of one smaller 

que soi. 

than himself. 



XXVIII. 

Le Lion et le Moucheron. Fable. 

The Lion and the Gnat. A Fable. 

Va-t'ent, chetif insecte! disait un jour le lion au 

Begone, vile insect ! said sone *day *the aiion to-the 

moucheron, Crois-tu, dit le dernier, que ton titre 

gnak Believest thou, said the latter, that thy title 

de roi me fasse-peurj ? un boeuf est plus-gros que toi ; 

of king ame ican-frighten 1 an ox is larger than thou ', 

et je le mene a ma fantaisie. A-peine il achevait 

and I shim ^manage to my fancy. Scarce she idid-afinish 

€es mots, qu' il fond sur le cou du lion, qu' il 

these words, when he darts on the neck of- the lion, whom he 

rend presque fou. Le quadrupede ecume, et son oeil 

renders almost crazy. The quadruped foams, and his eye 

etincelle ; il rugit. Le moucheron le harcelle en 

flashes-fire ; he roars. The gnat shim * worries in a 

cent lieux; tantot pique 1' echine, et tantot le 

hundred places; now stings the spine, and now the 

museau. La rage est a son faite, et le malheureux 

snout. The rage is at its height, and the unhappy 

lion se-bat les 11 flancs, se-dechire lui-meme§. Sa fureur 

Jion beats his sides, lacerates himself. His afury 

extreme le fatigue, 1' abat : le voila sur-les-dents^f. 

*extreme *him afatigues, shim prostrates : shim ibehold powerless. 

* Tout le monde. Literally, all the world. 
f Va-t' en. . Literally, go thou away. 
t Fasse-peur. Literally, can-make fear. 

§ Lui-meme is added to give more strength to the expression, 
as se, before the verb, also means himself. 
T Sur-les-dents. Literally, on the teeth. 

4 c 



50 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

L' insecte se retire du combat avec gloire, 

The insect ^himself * withdraws from-the combat with glory, 

et s'envole dans les airs annoncer sa victoire. 

and flies-off into the air to-announce his victory. 

Nos ennemis les plus a craindre* sont souvent les 

Our enemies the most to be-feared are often the 

plus-petits. 

smallest. 



XXIX. 

Le Hibou, le Chat, P Oie et le Rat. Fable. 

The Owl, the Cat, the Goose and the Rat. A Fable. 

De jeunes ecoliers avaient pris un hibou, et V 

Some [of J young scholars bad caught an owl, and shim 

avaient eleve dans la cour du college. Un chat 

»had ^raised in the yard of-the college. A cat 

et une oie, nourris par le portier, etaient unis d r 

and a goose, fed by the porter, were united by 

amitie avec 1' oiseau; tous trois allaient et venaient 

friendship with the bird; all three went and came 

par toute la maison. A force d' etre dans la 

through 2 W hole Uhe house. By dint of being in the 

classe, ils avaient orne leur esprit, et savaient par 

class, they had adorned their mind, and knew by 

cceur les historiens les-plus celebres de 1' antiquite. 

heart the shistorians *most Celebrated of [the] antiquity. 

Un soir, en disputant, ils comparaient entre-euxt 

One evening, in disputing, they compared 4 with-each-other 

les peuples anciens. Ma foi, disait le chat, je donne 

Uhe ^nations Ancient. My troth, said the cat, I give 

F avantage aux Egyptiens : c' etait un peuple sage, 

the advantage to-the Egyptians: it was a ^people nvise, a 

ami des lois, eclaire, et, surtout, rempli de respect 

lover of-the laws, enlightened, and, above-all, filled with respect 



* Craindrc. Literally, to-fear. 

t Entre-eux. Literally, among them. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 51 

pour ses dieux. J' aime mieux les Atheniens, repondit 

for its gods. I like abetter Uhe ^Athenians, replied 

le hibou : que d' esprit ! que de grace ! quelle 

the owl : how-much — wit i how-much — grace ! what 

audace dans les combats! A-t*-on jamais fait autant 

boldness in [the] combats! Have — people ever done so-much 

avec si peu de moyens ? Je vous trouve plaisans, 

with so little — means? I *you ifind pleasant, 

s'ecrie 1' oie en colere : et les Romains, que vous 

exclaims the goose in anger : and the Romans, what »you 

en semble ? Est-ilt un peuple qui rassemble plus 

aof-them nhink? Is-there a nation which collects more 

de grandeur, plus de faits eclatants ? Dans les arts et 

— grandeur, more — adeeds ^shining? In the arts and 

dans la guerre, ils ont surpasse vos amis. Chacun 

in [the] w r ar, they have excelled your friends. Each 

des trois pedants persistait en son opinion, quand un 

of-the three pedants persisted in his opinion, when a 

rat, qui les entendait, leur cria : Je vois bien d'ou. 

rat, who »them *heard, ato-them *cried : I see well whence 

vient votre dispute : 1' Egypte adorait les chats, 

comes your dispute: [the] Egypt worshipped [the] cats, 

Athenes venerait les hiboux, et Rome nourrissait 

Athens venerated [the] owls, and Rome nourished 

des oies au Capitole. 

[of-the] geese in-the Capitol. 

Notre interet est toujours la boussole que suivent 

Our interest is always the compass which afollow 

nos opinions. 

»our ^opinions. 



* The t is placed between the two vowels for the sake of 
euphony. 

t Est-il. Literally, is it 



52 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



XXX. 

Le Cheval et le Loup. Fable. 

The Horse and the Wolf. A Fable. 

Un loup affame, courant-a-1'aventure*, etait sorti du 

A swolf 1 famished, seeking-adventure, was come-out of-the 

bois. II aper^oit un cheval qu' on avait mis 

wood. He perceives a horse which some-one had put 

au-verd. Je vous laisse a penser la joie qu' il 

to-[the] grass, I 2y u *leave to think the joy which he 

en concut. Mais il fallait employer la 

afrom-it iconceived. But it was-necessary to-employ [the] 

ruse pour avoir cette proie. Je suis, dit-il au 

cunning in-order to-have that prey. I am, said he to-the 

coursier, eleve en medecine ; je connais les vertus 

courser, a student in medicine; I know the virtues 

de tous les simples de ces pres, et sais en 

of all the simples of these meadows, and know how *of-them 

combiner 1' usage avec les effets de la vapeur; je 

no-combine nhe ^use with the effects of [the] steam ; I 

puis, sans me natter, guerir toutes sortes de 

am-able, without ^myself ^flattering, to-cure all sorts of 

maux ; et si vous voulez me dire quelle est votre 

evils; and if you are-willing arae Uo-tell what sis »your 

maladie, je promets de vous en debarrasser en 

^disease, I promise to *you ^of-it *rid in 

moins-de-rient : je ne demande pour tout salaire 

a trice: I — ask for my whole fee 

que votre amitie. — J' ai, dit le cheval, un aposteme 

only your friendship. I have, said the horse, a tumour 

sous le n pied. — Mon ills, dit le docteur, il-n'y-a-pas 

under my foot. My son, said the doctor, there-is-no 



* Courant a. 1' aventure. Literally, running to the adventure. 
t Moins de rien. Literally, less of nothing. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 53 

de temps a perdre ; il faut vous operer : je suis 

— time to lose ; it is-necessary *on syou no-operate : I am a 

chirurgien aussi. L' hypocrite ne songeait qu' a bien 

surgeon also. The hypocrite — thought only to nvell 

prendre son temps, arm de happer son malade. L' 

iseize ^his stime, in-order to snap-up his patient. The 

autre, qui s'en-doutait*, lui lache une made et lui 

other, who suspected-it, ^at-him ilets-go *a skick and [to-him] 

casse les n dents. 

breaks his teeth. 

Le fourbe est sou vent puni comme il le merite. 

The cheat is often punished as he [it] deserves. 



XXXI. 

Le Barbet et la Brebis. Fable. 

The Shaggy-Dog and the Sheep. A Fable. 

Un barbet, nouvellement tondu depuis la tete jusqu' 

A shaggy-dog, newly shorn from the head even 

a la' queue, courait dans les champs au milieu de 

to the tail, was-running in the fields in-the middle of 

1' hiver, tremblant de tous ses membres : il mourait 

the winter, shivering in all his limbs : he was-^dying 

presque de froid, et faisait des cris lamentables. 

^almost of cold, and was-making [of-the] aeries ilamentable. 

Qu'est-ce-que-vous-avezt ? lui demanda une brebis. 

What-ails-you ? ^him tasked a sheep. 

Vous paraissez tout transi. — Helas ! repondit le 

You seem quite benumbed. Alas! answered the 

barbet, je suis mort, si vous n' avez pitie de moi : 

sr, I am dead, if you »not *have pity on me : 



vous seule pouvez me sauver. — Moi seule ! comment- 

you alone are-able ime ito-save. I alone ! how- 



* S 1 en doutait. Literally, himself of-it suspected. 
f Qu' est-ce que vous avez. Literally, what is this that you 
have ? 



54 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

cela ? — La chose est facile : vous n' avez qu' a me 

so? The thing is easy: you — have only to 'me 

preter votre toison, je vous la rendrai. — Et quand? — 

ilend your fleece, I sto-you 'it iwill-return. And when? 

Ce soir; je vous le promets, foi de barbet. 

This evening ; I no-you 'it ^promise on the faith of a shaggy-dog. 

La brebis, comme une sotte, se depouilla de sa 

The sheep, like a fool, herself ^stripped of her 

toison, et en revetit le chien : il n' en fut pas 

fleece, and 4 W ith-it tclothed 'the ^dog: 4 he — swith-it swas *no 

plus-tot couvert qu' il tourna le derriere a sa 

-sooner scovered than he turned his back on his 

bienfaitrice, et s'enfuit. Le soir vient, point de 

benefactress, and ran-away. The evening comes, no — 

barbet ; le lendemain arrive, point de toison. La 

shaggy-dog ; the next-day arrives, no — fleece. The 

pauvre brebis s'apercut, mais trop tard, qu' elle avait 

poor sheep perceived, but too late, that she had 

ete trompee. 

been deceived. 

Charite bien ordonnee commence par soi-meme.* 

sCharity uvell 'ordered begins by one's-self. 



XXXII. 

La Grenouille et la Sonris. Fable. 

The Frog and the Mouse. A Fable. 

Il-y-eut un jour une grande dispute entre une 

There-was *one *day *a 'great 'dispute between a 

grenouille et une souris ; chacune pretendait etre 

frog and a mouse ; each-one pretended to-be 

maitresse d' un marais. Commere, dit la souris, vous 

mistress of a fen. Gossip, said the mouse, you 

me cederez la place, s' il vous plait, elle m' 

«to-me ishall-yield 'the aplace, if it 'you ^pleases, it to-me 



Or, in more familiar English, Charity begins at home. 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 55 

appartient de droit: je la possedais avant vous, — Moi, 

ibelongs of right: I *it ^possessed before you. I, 

vous ceder la place ! surement vous n' y pensez pas ; 

*you no-yield the place! surely you — «of-it ido-»think s n ot ; 

il-y-a plus de h dix ans que j' y demeure ah . Apprenez 

it-is more than ten years that I nhere ihave-lived. Learn 

a vous connaitre, et soyez contente de vos trous. 

to ^yourself *know, and be content with your holes. 

OfTensee de la replique, la souris, comme un animal d' 

Offended with the reply, the mouse, like an animal of 

honneur et de courage, V appela-en-duel* : le duel 

honour and of courage, sher ^challenged : the challenge 

fut accepte. Les deux rivales, la colere et la 

was accepted. Tlie two rivals, £the] anger and [the] 

vengeance dans le coeur, parurent sur le champ de 

vengeance in the heart, appeared on the field of 

bataille; elles etaient armees de joncs au-lieu de 

battle ; they were ajmed with bulrushes instead of 

lances. Le combat allait devenir cruel et sanglant ; 

lances. The combat was-going to-become cruel and bloody ; 

mais un milan, qui planait dans 1' air, vit les 

but a kite, which was-hovering in the air, saw the 

deux heroines, et termina la qu ere lie en les 

two heroines, and terminated the quarrel by athein 

enlevant toutes-deuxt dans ses serres* 

-carrying-off both in his talons. 

Les gens faibles sont ordinairement les dupes de 

[The] ^people *weak are commonly the dupes of 

ieurs querelles. 

their quarrels. 



* Appela en duel. Literally, called in duel. 
t Toutes deux. Literally, all two. 



56 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



XXXIIL 

Les deux Pigeons. Fable. 

The two Pigeons. j9 Fable. 

Deux pigeons ae s' aimaient d' Tin amour sincere. 

Two pigeons ^each-other iloved with a ^love Jsincereo 

L' un d 5 eux, s'ennuyant au-logis*, voulut 

[The] one of them, being-tired of-home, wished 

entreprendre un long voyage. L' autre lui dit : Q,u 9 

to-undertake a long journey. The other *to-him *said: What 

allez vous faire? voulez-vous me quitter? L' 

are-^going *you to-do? will you *me ^leave? [Thej 

absence est le plus-grand des maux : que dis - je ? 

absence is the greatest of-[the] evils: what do-*say »I? 

non-pas pour vous, cruel! Au-moins, que les dangers, 

not-so for you, cruel ! At-least, let the dangers, 

les soins du voyage, changent un peu votre resolution. 

the cares of-the journey, change »a kittle *your ^resolution. 

Encore, si la saison etait plus avancee ! attendez le 

Yet, if the season was more advanced! wait for [the"] 

beau temps : qu y est-ce qui vous presse ? Je ne verrai 

fine weather: what is it that oyou *hurries? I — shall-see 

plus que rencontres funestes, que faucons, que 

[more] only 2encounters *fatal, only hawks, only 

reseaux. He las ! dirai - je, il pleut: mon frere, a-t-il 

nets. Alas! shall-^say »I, it rains: my brother, has — he 

tout ce qu' il desire, bon souper, bon gite ? Ce 

all that which he wishes, good supper, good lodging? This 

discours ebranla le coeur du voyageur: mais le desir 

discourse moved the heart of-the traveller: but the desire 

de voir et I' humeur inquiete I' emporterent enfin„ 

to see and [the] a ^disposition ^restless sit ^carried atlast. 

II dit : Ne pleurez pas : trois jours au-plus me 

He said: — Weep not: three days at-most «me 

* Au logis. Literally, at-the lodging. 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 57 

rendront content: je reviendrai vous conter 

i will-make content: I will-return sto-you Uo-relate 

de-point-en-point* mes aventures .;. je vous desennuierai. 

punctually my adventures ; I ayou iwill-amuse. 

Quiconque ne voit guere, n' a pas beaucoup a dire. 

Whoever — sees but-little, — has not much to say. 

La peinture de mon voyage vous fera un plaisir 

The picture of my journey syou *will-cause [a] ^pleasure 

extreme. Je dirai : J' etais. la, telle chose m' 

^extreme. I will-say: I was there, such a thing ^to-me 

arriva: vous croirez y etre vous-meme. A ces 

^happened: you will-believe nhere sto-be ^yourself. At these 

mots, en pleurant, ils se ae dirent adieu. Le 

words, while weeping, they sto-each-other isaid afarewell. The 

voyageur s'eloigne, et bientot un orage P oblige de 

traveller goes-away, and soon a storm shim ^obliges to 

cherclier un abri. Un seul arbre s' ofFrit; mais le 

seek a shelter. One ^aione nree ^itself soffered ; but the 

feuillage n' empecha pas qu'il-futt bien mouille. L' 

foliage — did-^prevent *not him-from-being much wet. The 

air devenu serein, il se fait-secberj du mieux qu' 

air become calm, he *nimself *dries [of]-the best. that 

il peut, et part tout morfondu ; il voit du ble 

he can, and sets-out quite chilled; he sees some [of-the] corn 

dans un champ ; il y vole, et se trouve pris 

in a field; he ^there iflies, and ^himself *finds caught 

dans un filet. Heureusement, le rets etait use, et 

in a net. Fortunately, the net was worn-out, and 

le pigeon fit si bien, qu' il parvint a le rompre. 

the pigeon worked so well, that he managed to sit * break. 

A-peine echappe du peril, un vautour a la serre 

Hardly escaped from-the peril, a vulture with [the] nalon 

cruelle allait en faire sa proie ; par bonheur un 

*cruel was-going 4of-him ito-make ^his 3 prey ; happily an 

aigle vint fondre sur le vautour. Le pigeon profita 

eagle came to-rush on the vulture. The pigeon took-advantage 

* De point en point. Literally, from point in point. 
f Qu' il fut. Literally, that he was. 
t Fait secher. Literally, makes to-dry. 



58 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

du conflit des voleurs, s'envola, et s'abattit aupres 

of-the conflict of-the robbers, flew-away, and stooped near 

d' une masure, croyant etre a la fin de ses malheurs; 

— a ruined-house, thinking to-be at the end of his misfortunes; 

mais un chasseur, qui portait un arc, lui decocha une 

but a hunter, who carried a bow, ^at-him ilet-fly an 

fleche qui lui cassa une patte. Alors, la volatille 

arrow which 2 him *broke one foot. Then, the ^winged-animal 

malheureuse, maudissant sa curio-site, s'en-retourna, 

^unfortunate, cursing his curiosity, returned, 

tant-bien-que-mal*, droit au logis ; bien resolue de 

as- well-as-possible, straight [to-the] home; very resolute to 

ne plus s' aventurer dans de si longs voyages. 

3no *more ^himself ^venture in [of] ^so along ijourneys. 

Les voyages sont souvent dangereux; pour 

[The] journeys are often dangerous; for 

quelques connaissances qu' on acquiert, on eprouve 

some knowledge that we acquire, we ^experience 

quelquefois bien* des peines. 

^sometimes many — difficulties. 



XXXIV. 

Le Singe. Apologue. 

The Monkey. An Apologue. 

Un vieux singe malin etant mort, son ombre 

A 3 old amonkey ^mischievous being dead, his ghost 

descendit dans la sombre demeure de Pluton, ou elle 

descended into the dark abode of Pluto, where it 

demanda a retourner parmi les vivants. Pluton voulait 

asked to return among the living. Pluto wished 

P envoyer dans le corps d' un ane pesant et stupide, 

sit Uo-send into the body of a 4 ass ^heavy ^and astupid, 

pour lui oter sa souplesse, sa vivacite et sa 

in-order sfroniit no-remove its suppleness, its vivacity and its 



* Tant bien que mal. Literally, as-much well as badly. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 59 

malice. Mais elle fit tant de tours plaisants et 

malice. But it made so-many — <turns 'pleasant *and 

badins que 1' inflexible roi des enfers ne put 

swaggish that the inflexible king of-the infernal-regions ^not 'could 

s' empecher de rire, et lui laissa le choix d' 

ahimself prevent from laughing, and no-it 'left the choice of 

une condition. Elle demande a entrer dans le corps d' 

a condition. It asks to enter into the body of 

un perroquet. "Au moins," disait-elle, "je conserverai 

a parrot. At least, asaid 'it, I shall-preserve 

par-la quelque ressemblance avec les hommes, que j' 

thereby some similarity with [the] men, whom 1 

ai long-temps imites. Etant singe, je faisais des 

have long imitated. Being a monkey, I made [of-thej 

gestes comme eux ; et, etant perroquet, je parlerai 

gestures such-as they; and, being a parrot, I shall-speak 

avec eux dans les-plus agreables conversations." 

with them in most agreeable conversations. 

A-peine 1' ame du singe fut introduite dans 

Hardly nhe 3 S oul *of-the 5 monkey 'was introduced into 

ce nouveau metier, qu' une vieille femme causeuse 

this new calling, when a sold 'woman 'prating 

P acheta. II fit ses delices ; elle le mit dans une 

ahim 'bought. He formed her delight; she ^him iput into a 

belle cage. II faisait bonne chere, et discourait toute 

beautiful cage. He got good cheer, and prated all 

la journee avec la vieille radoteuse, qui ne parlait pas 

the day with the 2 old 'doting-swoman, who 2 no 'spoke — 

plus sensement que lui. II joignit a son nouveau talent 

more sensibly than he. He joined to his new talent 

d' etourdir tout-le-monde je ne sais quoi de son 

of deafening every-body I s n ot *know what of his 

ancienne profession. II remuait sa tete ridiculement, 

ancient profession. He wagged his head ridiculously, 

il fesait craquer son bee, il agitait ses ailes de cent 

he made "crack 'his ^beak, he shook his wings in a hundred 

fa^ons, et faisait de ses pattes plusieurs tours qui 

ways, and performed with his feet many feats which 

sentaient encore les grimaces de fagotin. La vieille 

asavoured-of istill the grimaces of pug. The old-woman 



60 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

prenait a toute heure ses lunettes pour 1' admirer; 

seized at every hour her . spectacles to shim ladmire; 

elle etait bien fachee d' etre un-peu sourde, et de 

she was very sorry to be rather deaf, and to 

perdre quelquefois des paroles de son perroquet, 

lose occasionally some ofUhe speeches of her parrot, 

a qui elle trouvait plus d' esprit qu' a personne. Ce 

in whom she found more — wit than in any-body. This 

perroquet gate devint bavard, importun et fou. II 

sparrot ^spoiled became talkative, importunate and foolish. He 

se tourmenta si fort dans sa cage, et but tant 

shimself . uossed so much in his cage, and drank so-much 

de vin avec la vieille, qu' il en mourut. 

— wine with the old- woman, that he of-it died. 

Le voila revenu deyant Pluton, qui voulut cette 

sHim ibeliold returned before Pluto, who desired that 

fois le faire passer dans le corps d' un poisson, 

time ahimUo-make pass into the body of a fish, 

pour le rendre muet. Mais il fit encore une 

in-order shim Uo-render mute. But he ^performed *again a 

farce devant le roi des ombres ; et les princes ne 

farce before the king of-the shades; and [the] princes — 

resistent guere aux demandes des mauvais plaisants 

sresist ^seldom [to]-the demands of-the sorry jesters 

qui les flattent. Pluton accorda done a celui-ci qu' il 

who sthem ^flatter. Pluto ^granted Uhen to this-one that he 

irait dans le corps d' un homme; mais comme le 

might-go into the body of a man; but as the 

dieu eut-honte* de 1' envoyer dans le corps d' un 

god was-ashamed to »him *send into the body of a 

homme sage et vertueux, il le destina au corps d' 

«man iwise s a nd 3 virtuous, he shim ^destined to-the body of 

un harangueur ennuyeux et importun, qui mentait, qui 

a ^speech-maker ^tiresome sand simpo-rtunate, who lied, who 

se-vantait sans cesse, qui faisait des gestes 

boasted without intermission, who made [of-the] sgestures 



* Eut honte. Literally, had shame. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 61 

ridicules, qui se moquait de tout-le-monde, qui 

iridiculous, who 'himself imade-smerry at every-body, who 

interrompait les conversations les-plus-polies et 

interrupted 'the ^conversations most-polite and 

les-plus-solides, pour dire les sottises les-plus-gros- 

inost-solid, to say the impertinences igrossest. 

sieres. Mercure, qui le reconnut dans ce nouvei 

Mercury, who 'him ^recognized in this new 

etat, lui dit en riant : " Ho ! ho ! je te 

condition, 'to-him *said while laughing : Ho ! ho ! I 'thee 

reconnais ; tu n' es qu' un compose du singe et du 

^recognize; thou — art but a compound of-the monkey and of-the 

perroquet que j' ai vus autrefois. Qui t' 

parrot whom I have seen heretofore. He who 'from-thee 

oterait tes gestes et tes paroles apprises par coeur 

ishould-take thy gestures and thy words learned by heart 

sans jugement, ne laisserait rien de toi. D' un 

without judgment, — would-leave nothing of thee. Of a 

joli singe et d' un bon perroquet, on ne pent faire 

pretty monkey and of a good parrot, one — can make 

qu' un sot homme." , , 

but a foolish man FENELON. 



XXXV. 

Le Lapin de La Fontaine. Apologue. 

The Rabbit of La Fontaine. Jin Apologue. 

Je m' etais ennuye long-temps, et j' en avais 

I *of-myself *had %been ^wearied long, and I sones *had 

ennuye bien d' autres. Je voulus aller m'ennuyer 

'wearied 3 ma ny — mother. I wished to-go to-be-weary 

tout seul. J' ai une fort belle foret : j' y allai 

all alone. I have a very beautiful forest : I 'thither iwent 

un jour, ou, pour mieux dire, un soir, pour tirer 

one day, or, to 'better *say, one evening, in-order to-shoot 

un lapin. C etait a V heure de 1' aflut. Quantite 

a rabbit. It was at the hour of the watch. S. quantity 



62 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

de lapereaux paraissaient, disparaissaient, se-grattaient 

of young-rabbits appeared, disappeared, scratched 

le n nez, faisaient mille bonds, mille gambades, 

their nose, made a thousand skips, a thousand gambols, 

mais toujours si vite, que je n' avais pas le temps de 

but always so quickly, that I — had not the time to 

lacher mon coup. Un ancien, d' un poil un peu 

let-go my charge. An old one, with [a] hair a little 

plus gris, d' une allure plus posee, parut tout-a-coup 

more grey, of a pace more calm, appeared suddenly 

au bord de son terrier. Apres avoir fait sa toilette 

at-the brink of his burrow. After having made his toilette 

tout a son aise (car c' est de-la qu' on dit : propre 

quite at his ease (for it is thence that people say: clean 

comme un lapin), voyant que je le tenais au bout 

as a rabbit), seeing that I ^him *held at-the muzzle 

de mon fusil: Tire done, me dit - il, qu' 

of my musket: Shoot [then], no-me »said ^he, for what 

attends-tu? Oh! je vous avoue que je fus saisi d' 

waitest thou ? Oh ! I no-you ^confess that I was seized with 

etonnement ! Je n' avais jamais tire qu' a la guerre 

astonishment! I — had never fired but at [the] war 

sur des animaux qui parlent. Je n' en ferai rien, 

on [of-the] animals who speak. I — 3 f-it iwill-do*nothing, 

lui dis - je, tu es sorcier, ou je meure.— Moi ! 

ato-him *said »I, thou art a wizard, or I die. I! 

point-du-tout, me repondit-il ; je suis un vieux lapin de 

not-at-all, ato-me ^answered *he ; I am an old rabbit of 

La Fontaine. Oh ! pour-le-coup* je tombai-de-mon-hautt. 

La Fontaine. Oh! at-this-stroke I was-extremely-amazed. 

ife me mis a ses petits pieds : je lui demandai 

I ^myself ^placed at his little feet: I ^him masked a 

mille pardons, et lui reprochai de s' etre 

thousand pardons, and 3 him ^upbraided with ^himself »having 

ainsi expose. Eh! d'ou vient cet ennui de la vie? 

?<thus ^exposed. Oh ! whence comes this weariness of [the] life ? 



* Pour le coup. Literally, for the stroke. 

t Je tombai de mon haut. Literally, / fell from my height. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 63 

— De tout ce que je vois. — Ah! bon Dieu, n' 

From all that which I see. Ah ! good God, — 

avez-vous pas le meme thym, le meme serpolet? — 

have you not the same thyme, the same wild-thyme? 

Oui; mais ce ne sont plus les memes gens. Si tu 

Yes ; but these »no *are longer the same people. If thou 

savais avec qui je suis oblige de passer ma vie ! 

didst-know with whom I am obliged to pass my life! 

Helas ! ce ne sont plus les betes de mon temps. 

Alas ! these 3 no *are longer the beasts of my time. 

Ce sont de° petits lapins musques qui cherchent des 

These are [of] little ^rabbits ^perfumed who seek [of-the] 

fleurs. lis veulent se nourrir de roses, au-lieu 

flowers. They wish themselves 'to- feed with roses, instead 

d' une bonne feuille de chou qui nous suffisait 

of a good leaf of cabbage which ^us ^sufficed 

autrefois. Ce son des lapins geometres, politiques, 

formerly. These *are [of the] ^rabbits geometricians, politicians, 

philosophes ; que sais - je ? d' autres ne par lent qu' 

philosophers; what do-*know *I? [of] others — speak 2 nly 

allemand; d' autres parlent un francais que je n' 

^German; [of] others speak a French which I — 

entends pas davantage. Si je sors de mon trou pour 

understand no more. If I issue from my hole in-order 

passer chez quelque gent voisine, v c' est 

to-call at-the-house-of some ^race ^neighbouring, it is 

de-meme ; je ne comprends plus personne. Les betes 

the-same ; I no Understand ^longer any-body. The beasts 

d' aujourd'hui ont tant d' esprit! Enfin, vous le 

of to-day have so-much — wit! In-fine, 5 you 4 it 

dirai - je, a force d' en avoir, ils en ont si peu 

ishall-atell «I, by dint of *some ^having, they *of-it *have 2 so settle 

que notre vieux ane en avait plus que les singes de 

that our old ass 3of-it *had *more than the monkeys of 

ce temps-ci 1 . Je le priai de ne plus avoir d' 

this time. I airim 'entreated Ho *no 6 more ^entertain — 

humeur, et je lui dis que j' aurais soin de lui et de 

chagrin, and I *him uold that I would-have care of him and of 



64 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

ses camarades, s' il-s'en-trouvait* encore. II me 

his comrades, if there-were-any-to-be-found yet. He *me 

promit de me dire ce-qu' il disait a La Fontaine, et 

^promised to a m e *tell what he said to La Fontaine, and 

de me mener chez ses vieux amis. II m' y mena 

to 2me ilead among his old friends. He ^me nhither *led 

en effet. Sa grenouille, qui n' etait pas tout-a-fait 

in fact. His " frog, which — was not entirely 

morte, quoiqu' il 1' eut dit, etait de la plus-grande 

dead, though he 3 S o ihad 2 S aid, was of the greatest 

modestie, en comparaison de tous les animaux que 

modesty, in comparison with all the animals which 

nous voyons tous-les-jours : ses crapauds, ses cigales, 

we see every-day: his toads, his grasshoppers, 

chantaient mieux que nos rossignols ; ses loups 

sung better than our nightingales; his wolves 

valaient mieux que nos moutons. Adieu, petit lapin, 

were-[worth] better than our sheep. Good-by, little rabbit, 

je vais retourner dans mes bois, a mes champs et a 

I am-going to-return into my woods, to my fields and to 

mon verger. J' eleverai une statue a La Fontaine, et 

my orchard. I will-erect a statue to La Fontaine, and 

je passerai ma vie avec les betes de ce bon hornme. 

I will-pass my life with the beasts of that good man. 

LE PRINCE DE LIGNE. 



XXXVI. 

Lettre de Madame de Sevigne a sa Fille. 

Letter from Madame de Sevigne to her Daughter. 

Voici un terrible jour, ma chere enfant, je vous avoue 

This-ia a dreadful day, my dear child, I ato-you 'confess 

que je n' ent puis plus. Je vous ai quittee dans un 

that I *no — x can amore. I 8 you ihnve aleft in a 

* S' il b' en trouvait. Literally, if it itself of -them found. 
f Je n' en puis plus. En is merely idiomatic in this sen- 
tence, as in some others, and has, by itself, but a vague and 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 65 

etat qui augmente ma douleur. Je songe a tous 

condition which augments my grief. I think of all 

les pas que vous faites, et a tous ceux que je fais; 

the steps which you make, and of all those which I make; 

et combien il s'en-faut qu' en marchant toujours de 

and how-much it is-wanting that in walking always in 

cette sorte nous puissions jamais nous rencontrer! 

that manner we can-be-able ever seach-other Uo-meet! 

Mon cceur est en repos quand il est aupres de vous : c' 

My heart is in repose when it is near — you: it 

est son etat nature 1, et le seul qui puisse lui 

is its Estate ^natural, and the only state which can *it 

plaire. 

iplease. 

Ce-qui s'est-passe ce matin me donne une douleur 

What has-passed this morning ^me Ogives a borrow 

sensible et me fait un dechirement dont votre 

ilively and *me icauses a pain of-which your 

philosophie sait les raisons. Je les ai senties et 

philosophy knows the reasons. I sthem *have afelt and 

les sentirai long-temps. J' ai le coeur et P 

athem *shall-feel long. I have [the] my heart and [the] 

imagination tout remplis de vous, je n' y puis 

imagination quite full of you, I snot *of-it *can 

penser sans pleurer, et j' y pense toujours ; de-sorte 

sthink without weeping, and I 2 f-jt Uhink always; so 

que 1' etat ou je suis n' est pas une chose 

that the state in-which I am- — is not a ^thing 

soutenable : comme il est extreme j' espere qu' il ne 

isufFerable: as it is extreme I hope that it — 

durera pas dans cette violence. Je vous cherche 

will-^endure *not in this force. I 2y u ilook-for 

toujours, et je trouve que tout me manque, 

always, and I find that every-thing 2to-me iis-wanting, 

parce-que vous me manquez. Mes yeux qui vous 

because you ^to-me ^are-wanting. My eyes which 3 you 

indeterminate sense. The exact meaning of the sentence is : 
lam exhausted; but the particle en in the French seems to indi- 
cate the cause of that state. 
5 c* 



66 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

ont rencontree tant de fois, ne vous trouvent plus. 

»have *met so-many — times, 3uo ayou ifind more. 

Le temps agreable qui est passe rend celui-ci 

The «time ^agreeable which is passed renders this 

douloureux, jusqu'a-ce-que je sois un peu accoutumee ; 

sorrowful, until I can-be a little accustomed; 

mais ce ne sera jamais pour ne-pas souhaiter 

but this — will-*be mever - ^to *not wish 

ardemment de vous revoir et de vous embrasser. 

ardently to *you isee-aagain and to *you. ^embrace. 

Je ne dois pas esperer mieux de 1' avenir que 

I — ought not to-hope better of the future than 

du passe ; je sais ce-que votre absence m' a fait 

of- the past ; I know what your absence a me *has Caused 

souffrir, je serai encore plus a plaindre, parce-que je 

to-suffer, I shall-be still more to be-pitied, because I 

me suis fait imprudemment une habitude 

*to-myself ihave screated ^imprudently a shabit 

necessaire de vous voir. II me semble que je ne 

^necessary of *you feeing. It ^to-me *seems that I — 

vous ai pas assez embrassee en partant; je ne 

<you ihave *not ^enough 3 e mbraced at setting-out; I — 

vous ai point assez dit combien je suis contente 

«you *have ^not senough nold how-much I am satisfied 

de votre tendresse ; je ne vous ai point assez 

with your tenderness ; I — *you »have *not Sufficiently 

recommandee a M. de Grignan, je ne 1' ai point 

areoommended to M. de Grignan, I — ^him ihave *not 

assez remercie de toutes ses politesses, ni de toute 

^sufficiently athanked for all his civilities, nor for all 

P amitie qu' il a pour moi : j' en attendrai les 

the friendship which he has for me : I 4 of-it »shall-expect *the 

effets sur tous les chapitres. 

^effects on all [the] subjects. 

Je suis deja devoree de curiosite ; je n' espere 

I am already consumed with curiosity ; I *no lhope 

de consolation que de vos lettres, qui me feront 

[of] consolation but from your letters, which *me iwill-make 

encore bien soupirer. En un mot, ma fille, je ne 

•again «much Nigh. In a word, my daughter, I — 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 67 

vis que pour vous. Dieu me fasse la grace de 

live but for you. aGod *me imay-^grant the favour of 

1' aimer quelque jour comme je vous aime. Jamais 

*him Moving some day as I syou Hove, Never 

un depart n' a ete si triste que le-notre ; nous ne 

*a ^departure — lnas Deen so sac * as ours I we — 

disions pas un mot. Adieu, ma chere enfant ; plaignez- 

said not a word. Farewell, my dear child; pity 

moi de vous avoir quittee. 

me for ayou ^having ^left. 



XXXVII. 

Lettre de Madame de Maintenon a sa Niece. 

Letter from Madame de Maintenon to her Niece. 

Je vous aime trop, ma chere niece, pour ne-pas vous 

I syou Uove too-much, my dear niece, 2to *not *you 

dire vos verites ; je les dis bien* aux demoiselles de 

Hell your truths; I athem nell — to-the young-ladies of 

Saint-Cyrt, et comment vous neglige rais-je, vous que 

Saint Cyr, and how *you icould-aneglect %!, you whom 

je regarde comme ma propre fille ? Je ne sais si 

I regard as my own daughter? I anot *know whether 

c' est vous qui leur inspirez la fierte qu' elles 

it is you who athem linspire-^with the pride which they 

ont, ou si ce sont elles qui vous donnent celle 

have, or whether they are they who *you *give that 

qu' on admire en vous. Gluoi-qu'il-en-soitJ, vous 

which people wonder-at in you. Let-it-be-what-it-may, you 

serez insupportable si vous ne devenez humble. Le 

will-be insupportable if you a not ido-^become humble. The 

ton d' autorite que vous prenez ne convient point. 

tone of authority which you assume 2 not iis-3proper at-all. 



* Bien gives more strength to what is here said, and has no 
precise equivalent in English. 

f A seminary founded by Louis XIV., for noble young ladies. 
t Quoi qu' il en soit. Literally, what that it of-it may-be, 



68 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

Vous croyez-vous un personnage important, 

3 Yourself * think 3you an ^personage ^important, 

parce-que vous etes nourrie dans une maison ou le 

because you are nourished in a house where the 

roi va tous-les-jours ? Le lendemain de sa mort, 

king goes every-day? The morrow of his death, 

ni son successeur, ni tout ce qui vous caresse, 

neither his successor, nor all that which ayou ^caresses, 

ne vous regarderont, ni vous, ni Saint-Cyr. Si le 

— ayou iwill-notice, neither you, nor Saint Cyr. If the 

roi meurt avant que vous ne ai soyez mariee, vous 

king dies before that you — may-be married, you 

epouserez un gentilhomme de T province avec peu de 

will-espouse a ^nobleman — ^country with little — 

bien et beaucoup d' orgueil. Si, pendant ma vie, 

wealth and much — pride. If, during my life, 

vous epousez un seigneur, il ne vous estimera, quand 

you marry a nobleman, he — *you 1 will-esteem, when 

je ne serai plus, qu' autant que vous lui plairez ; et 

I *no ishall-be more, only as-much as you *him ishall-please ; and 

vous ne lui plairez que par la douceur, et vous n' 

you — *him iwill-please only by [the] gentleness, and you — 

en avez point. Je ne suis pas pre venue contre vous ; 

sof-it ihave *none. I — am not prepossessed against you; 

mais je vois en vous un orgueil effroyable. Vous savez 

but I see in you a spride ^frightful. You know 

1' Evangile par coeur: et qu' importe, si vous ne 

the Gospel by heart : and what matters it, if you anot 

vous conduisez point par ses maximes ! 

ayourself ^behave at-all by its maxims! 

Songez que c' est uniquement la fortune de votre 

Consider that it is only the fortune of your 

tante qui a fait celle de votre pere, et qui fera 

aunt that has made that of your father, and which will-make 

la-votre, et moquez-vous des respects qu' on 

yours, and deride [ofj-the attentions which people 

vous rend. Vous voudriez vous elever meme 

ato-you *render. You would-wish ^yourself l to-elevate even 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 69 

au-dessus de moi: ne vous flattez point; je suis 

above — me ; 3 not syourself ^flatter at-all ; I am 

ires-peu-de-chose*, et vous n' etes rien. 

very-insignificant, and you — are nothing. 

Je vous parle comme a une grande fllle, parce-que 

I *to-you *speak as to a grown girl, because 

vous en avez 1' esprit. Je consentirais de-bon-coeurt 

you *of-one *have *the smind. I would-consent heartily 

que vous en eussiez moins, pourvu que vous 

that you sof-it *should-have ^less, provided that you 

perdissiez cette presomption ridicule devant les 

would-lose that presumption ridiculous before [the] 

homines, et criminelle devant Dieu. Clue je vous 

men, and criminal before God. Let me ^you 

re-trouve, a mon retour, modeste, douce, timide, docile, 

ifind-aagain, on my return, modest, mild, timid, docile, 

je vous en aimerai davantage. Yous savez quelle 

I *you *for-it *shall-love amore. You know what 

peine j' ai a vous gronder, et que] plaisir j' ai 

reluctance I have to ayou *chide, and what pleasure I have 

a vous en faire. 

in ayou ssome ^doing^ 



XXXVIII. 

Lettre de La Marquise de Favras, a Madame 

Letter from the Marchioness de Favras, to JMadam 

de Valcour. 

de Valcour. 

Oui, Madame, nous sommes decides a faire un 

Yes, madam, we are decided to make a 

voyage en Bretagne, avant de retourner au Langue- 

journey in Brittany, before — returning to [the] Langue- 

doc. Le but de ce voyage est le desir de voir deux 

«doc. The end of that journey is the desire to see two 

* Tres peu de chose. Literally, very little of thing, 
f De bon coeur. Literally, of good heart 



70 COLLOT ? S PROGRESSIVE 

personnes aussi interessantes qu' extraordinaires, M* 

persons as interesting as extraordinary, Mr, 

et Mme. de Lagaraie ; voici leur histoire* 

and Mrs. de Lagaraie ; here is their history, 

Le marquis de Lagaraie passait pour 1' homme le 

The marquis de Lagaraie passed for the man the 

plus heureux de la Bretagne. Cheri d' une femme 

most happy of [the] Brittany. Cherished by an awoman 

aim able, considere dans sa province par son merite 

^amiable, considered in his province by his *merit 

personnel, sa naissance et sa fortune, il ressemblait 

'personal, his birth and his fortune, he assembled 

dans son chateau toute la bonne compagnie des envi- 

in his castle all the good company of-the neigh- 

rons. On y donnait la comedie, des bals, et chaque^ 

bourhood. People there gave [the] plays, [of-the] balls, and every 

jour amen ait une fete nouvelle, 

day brought a zfete *new. 

Mme. de Lagaraie partageait les gouts de son? 

Mrs. de Lagarie shared the likings of her 

mari, et tous-deux croyaient avoir fixe le bonheur,, 

husband, and both thought to have fixed [the] happiness,. 

quand tout-a-coup au milieu d' une fete la mort 

when all-ofa-sudden in-the midst of a fete the *death 

subite de leur fille unique produisit dans le coeur 

'sudden of their ^daughter »only produced in the heart 

du pere infortune une revolution aussi singuliere qu* 

of-the ^father 'unfortunate a revolution as singular as 

imprevue. Le degout du monde le conduisit bientot 

unforeseen. The dislike of-the world *him *led soon 

a la devotion la plus sublime, et en meme temps. 

to the devotion the most sublime, and at-the same time 

lui inspira un dessein qui n' a jamais eu d 9 

«him ^inspired -with a design which — has never had any 

exemple. 

example. 

M. et Mme. de Lagaraie partirent pour Mont- 

Mr. and Mrs. de Lagaraie set-out for Mont- 

pollior; ils y resterent deux ans uniquement occupes 

neltter; they there remain two years solely occupied. 



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INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 71 

a s' instraire dans tout ce qui a-rapport a 

in ^themselves instructing in all that which is-connected with 

la chirurgie; ils font des cours d' anatomie et 

£the] surgery; they attend to[the] lectures on anatomy and 

de chimie, apprennent a saigner, a panser des plaies ; 

on chemistry, learn to bleed, to dress [of-the] wounds; 

et reunnissant pour ce genre d' etude toute P appli- 
and uniting for that kind of study all the appli- 
cation que peuvent inspirer de grands motifs et un 

cation which fcan inspire [of] igreat ^motives sand «a 

veritable enthousiasme, ils font Y un et 1' autre des 

*true «enthusiasm, they make the one and the other [of-the] 

progres etonnants* 

^progress ^astonishing, • 

Pendant ce temps on travaille par leur ordre 

During that time people work by their order 

au chateau de Lagaraie, qu 5 on transforme en un 

to-the castle of Lagaraie, which they transform into a 

Taste hopital, consistant en deux corps-de-logis ; 1' un 

vast hospital, consisting in two main-houses; the one 

pour les hommes et 1' autre pour les femmes. Et 

for the men and the other for the women. And 

ce sejour ou regnaient jadis les plaisirs, le faste et 

that sojourn where reigned formerly [the] pleasures, [the] pomp and 

la moll esse est devenu le temple le plus auguste de 

^the] effeminacy has become the temple the most august of 

la religion et de 1' humanite, 

£the] religion and of [the] humanity. 

Cependant M. et Mme. de Lagaraie partirent 

Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. de Lagaraie set-out 

de Montpeliier et arriverent dans leur terre. M. de 

from Montpeliier and arrive into their land. Mr. de 

Lagaraie, alors age de quarante cinq ans, prit la 

Lagaraie, then aged [of] forty five years, took the 

direction de V hopital des hommes, et depuis dix 

department of the hospital of the men, and since ten 

ans consacre sa vie et sa fortune a servir les indi- 

years devotes his life and his fortune to serve the indi- 

gens, dont sa maison est 1' asyle. Mme. de Lagaraie, 

gent, of- whom his house is the asylum Mrs. de Lagaraie, 



72 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

dix ans plus-jeune que son mari, s' impose les 

ten years younger than her husband, sherself *prescribes-to the 

memes devoirs dans 1' hopital des femmes. Belle 

same duty in the hospital of-the women. Beautiful 

et jeune encore, elle quitta avec transports les riches 

and young still, she left with transports the rich 

parures de la vanite, pour prendre 1' humble 

ornaments of [the] vanity, in-order to-take the humble 

costume d' hospitaliere. 

costume of hospital-attendant. 

Cet etablissement, cet exemple de toutes les vertus ? 

That establishment, that example of all the virtues 

au-dessus peut-etre de tout ce qu' on a jamais vu 

above perhaps — all that which we have ever seen 

d' admirable, subsiste encore, dure depuis dix ans. 

of admirable, subsists still, lasts since ten years 

Voila, Madame, ce-que nous voulons voir. Emilie et 

Behold, madam, what we wish to-see. Emily and 

Alexandre doivent faire leur premiere communion 

Alexander ought to-make their first communion 

dans six mois, et je ne puis les y mieux disposer 

in six months, and I *not * can ^hem *to-it abetter dispose 

qu' en les menant a Lagaraie. II est si doux de 

but in *them ^conducting to Lagaraie. It is so sweet to- 

contempler la vertu de pres ! L' hommage qu' ora 

behold [the] virtue [of] near* The homage that we 

lui rend est le premier pas vers elle. 

ato-it ^render is the first step towards it. 



XXXIX. 

Lettre de la meme, a Madame de Bellecour* 

Letter from the same, to Madam de Bellecour. 

Se-peut-il, Madame, que vous me demandiez 

Is-it-possible, madam, that you *me *ask 

serieusement si Emilie se-trouve chez-moi a 

seriously if Emily is in-my-apartment at 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 73 

P heure ou je re^ois? Peut-on se-figurer Emilie 

the time when I receive company? Can one imagine Emily 

assise tristement sur le bord de sa chaise au 

^seated *sadly on the edge of her chair in-the 

milieu d' un cercle, ecoutant une conversation 

midst of a circle, listening-to a ^conversation 

frivole et decousue, et faisant tous les compliments 

^frivolous 5tand ^unconnected, and making all the compliments 

d' usage? Non, non, Madame; Emilie est une 

in usage? No, no, madam; Emily is an 

aimable enfant, mais elle n' est encore qu' une 

amiable child, but she — is as-yet but a 

enfant, puisqu' elle n' a que onze ans, et elle ne 

child, since she — is but eleven years old, and she — 

verra le monde que lorsqu' elle sera en-etat d' 

shall-see the world only when she will-be able to 

observer et de renechir. 

observe and to reflect. 

J' ai une nouvelle histoife a vous center. Vous 

I have a new story no ayou Uo-rqfate. You 

saurez que depuis un an Emilie recjoit chaque 

will-know that since one year Emily receives every 

mois deux louis pour ses menus-plaisirs, sur quoi 

month two louis for her pocket-expenses, on which 

il-faut qu' elle s' entretienne d' epingles, de 

it-is-necessary that she ^herself ishould-keep-up with pins, with 

poudre, de pommade, de papier, de cire-a-cacheter, 

powder, with pomatum, with paper, with *wax ^sealing, 

de gants et de souliers. Le premier mois, les 

with gloves and with shoes. The first month, the 

deux louis furent depenses en supernuites, et Emilie 

two louis were spent in superfluities, and Emily 

fut obligee de porter des gants sales et des 

was obliged to wear [of-the] gloves »dirty and [of-the] 

souliers perces. Alors elle sentit la necessite d* 

ashoes Hvorn-out. Then she felt the necessity of 

avoir de 1' ordre et de 1' economic Maintenant 

having [of the] order and [of the] economy. Now 

elle ecrit exactement sa depense, et sait la regler 

she writes exactly her expense, and knows ait Uo-regulatt 
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74 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

sur ses revenus. Avant hier a midi je voulus 

on her income. The day before yesterday at noon I wished 

sortir pour acheter quelque chose, lorsque Emilie, 

to-go-out in-order to-buy some thing, when Emily, 

entrant dans mon cabinet, me demanda en grace 

entering in my closet, ^me masked ■ as a favour 

de la mener chez un marchand dont elle m' 

to ^her ^conduct to-the-house-of a merchant of-whom she sto-me 

avait parle. T ai encore, me dit - elle, un peu d' 

ihad ^spoken. I have yet, 3to-me *says sshe, a little [of] 

argent de reste de mon mois, et je voudrais bien 

money [of] remaining of my month, and I would-like much 

acheter une petite table. V y consens d' autant- 

to-buy a small table. I no-it *agree so-much- 

mieux, lui repondis-je, que je desire que tu saches 

the-more, no-her ^answered $1, that I wish that thou shouldst-know 

le prix des choses que tu seras obligee d' acheter 

the price of-the things which thou shalt-be obliged to buy 

un jour, ce qui ne pexit s' apprendre qu' en allani 

one day, that which a n ot *can be-learned but in going 

quelquefois chez les marchands. 

sometimes to-the-houses-of the merchants. 

Nous partons et nous entrons dans une belle 

We set-out and we enter into a beautiful 

boutique. Emilie demande a voir des tables, et 

shop. Emily asks to see [of-the] tables, and 

on lui en montre une renfermant un pupitre ; 

they no-her 3 of-them *show ^ ne enclosing a desk; 

mais malheureusement elle coiite vingt-sept francs, 

but unfortunately it costs twenty-seven francs, 

et Emilie n' en possede que douze. Cela est 

and P^mily — [of-them] possesses but twelve. This is 

facheax, lui dis-je tout bas, si jusqu' ici tu n' 

sad, ato-her isaid *I quite low, if till now thou — 

avais pas tant depense d' argent en babioles, que 

hadst not *so-much *spent — money in gewgaws, which 

tu as perdues ou cassees, tu aurais pu acheter 

thou hast lost or broken, thou wouldst-have been-able to-buy 

cette jolie table. Emilie soupira, et fit des reflexions 

that pretty table. Emily sighed, and made [of-the] reflections 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 75 

sur 1' economie. Je fis mes emplettes et nous 

on [the] economy. I made my purchases and we 

partimes. 

set-out. 

Q-uand nous sommes en voiture je nV aper^ois 

When we are in carriage I — perceive 

qu' Emilie tient sous son bras une cassette en bois 

that Emily holds under her arm a chest in a W ood 

de rose. Comment, dis-je, tu as achete cela? — Oui 

— irose. How, said I, thou hast bought that? Yes 

maman. — Et combien ? — Pour mes douze francs.-— 

mamma. And how-much? For my twelve francs. 

Mais c' «tait une table que tu desirais. — Mais je n' en 

But it was a table that thou wished. But I — sont 

ai point trouve de jolie pour le prix que je pouvais 

»have snot afound *any epretty for the price which I could 

y mettre. — Et a-cause de cela tu as achete une 

ato-it iput. And because of that thou hast bought one 

chose dont tu n' as- nul besom! On ne doit jamais 

thing of- which thou «not *hast any want ! One — ought never 

se depouiller entierement de son argent pour 

^himself Uo-strip entirely of his money in-order 

satisfaire une fantaisie ; il peut survenir une circonstance 

to-gratify a fancy; it may befall a circumstance 

qui le fasse regretter. — Mais dans trois jours je 

which Ht imay-cause Ho regret. But in three days I 

recevrai mon mois. — II serait tres possible que 

will-receive my month. It might-be very possible that 

d' ici la tu aies besoin d' argent. 

hence there thou shouldst-have need of money. 

Le lendemain de cet entretien un laquais entre 

The next-day of that conversation a footman enters 

dans la chambre d' Emilie et lui remet une lettre a 

into the room of Emily and *her igives a letter to 

son adresse, en lui disant qu' une femme bien 

her direction, while ato-her ^saying that a woman very 

pale et mal vetue vient-de 1' apporter. Emilie la 

pale and badly clothed has-just ^it ^brought. Emily ait 

remet a Mile. Arnaud, sa gouvernante, qui 1' ouvre 

J gives to Miss Arnaud, her governess, who Ht »opens 



76 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

aussitot et lit tout haut ce-qui suit : " Mademoiselle, 

immediately and reads quite loud what follows: Miss, 

j' implore votre compassion. Je suis veuve, et j' ai 

I implore your compassion. I am a widow, and I have 

sept enfants qui sont pres d' expirer de misere. Je 

seven children who are near to expire with misery. I 

suis venue pour parler a madame votre mere, et lui 

am come to speak to [madam] your mother, and *her 

demander quelques secours. Mais comme elle n' est 

*ask some assistance. But as she — is 

pas encore levee, je m' adresse a vous. Je vous 

not yet up, I amyself *apply to you. I sto-you 

ecris dans votre cuisine, oii je vois le feu pour la 

iwrite in your kitchen, where I see the fire for the 

premiere fois depuis huit jours. Au nom de Dieu, 

first time since eight days. In-the name of God, 

prenez pitie de moi et de mes enfants." 

have pity on me and on my children." 

Ah ! grand Dieu ! s' eerie Emilie, que ferai - je 

Ah ! great God ! exclaims Emily, what shall ado *I 

done ? — Comment, Mademoiselle, reprit la gouvernante, 

then ? How, miss, resumed the governess, 

pouvez-vous hesiter un moment a donner a cette pauvre 

can you hesitate a moment to give to that poor 

femme 1' argent necessaire pour lui avoir du pain? 

woman the money necessary to *her »have [of-the] bread? 

Envoyez-lui un ecu, ce secours lui suffira pour 

Send her a crown, that succour aher ^will-suffice for 

aujourd' hui, et sfirement vous ne doutez pas que Mme. 

to-day, and surely you — doubt not that [Mrs.] 

votre mere ne lui fasse donner tous les secours 

your mother — slier ishould-cause *to-give all the succours 

qu' exige sa deplorable situation. — Un ecu, repondit 

which requires *her ^deplorable 3 S ituation. A crown, replied 

Emilie, un ecu ! helas, je ne 1' ai pas ! Ah ! mes 

Emily, a crown! alas, I — 3 it »have *not ! Ah! my 

douze francs, si je les avais ! maudite cassette ! 

twelve francs, if I ^them ihad ! cursed chest! 

O, Mademoiselle Arnaud, pretez-moi douze francs, je 

O, Miss Arnaud, lend me twelve francs, I 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 77 

vous en conjure ! — Je ne le puis ; Madame m' a 

syou [of-it] iconjure ! I snot 3 it *can ; madam *me ihas 

expressement defendu de vous preter de 1' argent. — 

^expressly ^forbidden to ^yo\i ilend any [the] money. 

Mais cette pauvre femme ! — Rassurez - vous, elle sera 

But that poor woman ! Reassure yourself, she shall-be 

secourue. Mais il est bien etonnant que vous n' 

relieved. But it is very astonishing that you ^rio 

ayez plus d' argent Je ne depense pas le-mien en 

»have more — money. I — spend not mine in 

bagatelles; je suis toujours en etat de secourir les 

trifles ; I am always in a state to succour the 

indigents, quand ils ont recours a moi. 

indigent, when they have recourse to me. 

A mon re veil, Emilie et Mile. Arnaud descendent 

On my awaking, Emily and Miss Arnaud came-down 

chez-moi ; la premiere, les larmes aux yeux, me 

to-my -house ; the former with [the] tears in-her eyes, 2to-me 

conte V histoire. Comme son coeur lui avait fait 

^relates the history. As her heart aher ihad ^caused 

faire toutes les reflexions qu' un tel evenement 

to-make all the reflections which aan isuch event 

peut inspirer, je ne m' en permis aucune. Une 

can inspire, I *not *to-myself [of-them] tallowed 3any. A 

remontrance inutile est aussi desagreable qu' ennuyeuse, 

^reproof ^useless is as disagreeable as tiresome, 

et souvent elle seche tout-a-coup les larmes d' un 

and often it dries-up all-at-once the tears of a 

sincere repentir. Je me contentai de la plaindre. 

sincere repentance. I ^myself ^contented to ^her A pity. 

Glue tu as du souffrir, lui dis-je, ma pauvre 

How-much sthou 3 ha ve *must suffered, no-her *said »I, my poor 

enfant, quelle cruelle matinee ! — Ah ! repondit Emilie, 

child, what a cruel morning ! Ah ! replied Emily, 

cette douleur sensible, je ne 1' eprouverai plus. Je 

this agrief ^lively, I ano ait tshall-experience more. I 

suis guerie pour toujours des fantaisies qui peuvent 

am cured for ever of-the fancies which can 

nous priver du bonheur de secourir les infortunes.-— 

«us ^deprive of-the happiness of assisting the unfortunate. 



78 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

Ecoute, Emilie, avant de former un projet, consulte 

Listen, Emily, before — forming a project, consult 

toujours la raison; elle n' exige pas le sacrifice total 

always [the] reason; it — requires not the Sacrifice itotal 

des fantaisies, elle veut seulement qu' elles ne soient 

of-[the] fancies, it wishes only that they — should abe 

pas toutes satisfaites. La moderation, cette belle vertu, 

inot all gratified. [The] moderation, that beautiful virtue, 

est absolument necessaire en toutes choses. 

is absolutely necessary in all things. 



XL. 

Lettre de Voltaire a une Demoiselle, qui V avail 

Letter from Voltaire to a Young-Lady, who ahim »had 

consulte sur les livres qii 9 elle devait lire. 



qu 

vine 



aconsulted on the books which she ought to-read. 

Je ne suis, Mademoiselle, qu' un vieux malade, et 

I — am, miss, but an old sick person, and 

il - faut que mon etat soit bien douloureux, puisque je 

it-is-necessary that my state be very painful, since I 

n' ai pu repondre plus-tot a la lettre dont vous 

anot ihave been-able to-answer sooner to the letter with-which you 

m' honorez, et que je ne vous envoie que de la prose 

5me ^honour, and that 1 — ^you *send only [of the] prose 

pour vos jolis vers. Vous me demandez des conseils. 

for your pretty verses. You a me *ask [of-the] advices, 

il ne vous en faut point d' autre que votre gout. 

[it] — you [of-them] want not any other than your taste. 

L' etude que vous avez faite de la langue italienne 

The study which you have made of the language ^Italian 

doit encore fortifier ce gout avec lequel vous etes 

ought still to-strengthen that taste with which you are 

nee, et que personne ne peut donner. Le Tasse et 

born, and which no-one — can give. [The] Tasso and 

F Arioste vous rendront plus de services que moi, 

[the] Ariosto *you »will-render more — services than I, 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 79 

et la lecture de nos meilleurs poetes vaut mieux que 

and the reading of our best poets is-worth better than 

toutes les lemons ; mais puisque vous daignez de si loin 

all the lessons; but since you deign from so far 

me consulter, je vous invite a ne lire que les ouvrages 

3ffle ^consult, I 2you linvite to — read only the works 

qui sont depuis long-temps en possession des suffrages 

which are since long-time in possession of-the approbation 

du public, et dont la reputation n' est point 

of-the public, and of-which the reputation — is not 

equivoque : il-y en a peu, mais on profite bien 

doubtful : there 3of-them *are afew, but one profits much 

davantage en les lisant, qu' avec tous les mauvais 

more in sthem reading, than with all the bad 

petits livres dont nous sommes inondes. Les bons 

little books with-which we are overflowed. The good 

auteurs n' ont de 1' esprit qu' autant qu' il en faut, 

authors — have [of the] wit but as-much as they [of-it] want, 

ne le recherchent jamais, plaisent avec bon sens, et 

— sit alook-for inever, please with good sense, and 

s' expriment avec clarte. II semble qu' on n' 

^themselves ^express with clearness. It seems that they ^no 

ecrive plus qu' en enigmes. Rien n' est simple, tout 

iwrite more but in riddles. Nothing — is simple, every-thing 

est affecte ; on s' eloigne en tout de la nature, 

is affected; they ^themselves idistance in every-thing from [the] nature, 

on a le malheur de vouloir mieux faire que nos 

they have the misfortune to wish teller ito-do than our 

maitres. 

masters. 

Tenez-vous-en, Mademoiselle, a tout ce qui plait 

Keep [you] [of-it] miss, to all that which pleases 

en eux. La moindre affectation est un vice. Les 

in them. The least affectation is a vice. The 

Italiens n' ont degenere, apres le Tasse et 1' Arioste, 

Italians — have degenerated, after [the] Tasso and [the] Ariosto, 

que parce qu' ils ont voulu avoir trop d' esprit ; et 

only because they have wished to-have too-much — wit ; and 

les Franc ais sont dans le meme cas. Voyez avec quel 

the French are in the same case. See with whai 



80 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

naturel Madame de Sevigne et d' autres dames 

happy-disposition madam de Sevigne and some other ladies 

ecrivent ; comparez ce style avec les phrases entortillees 

write; compare that style with the sphrases ^entangled 

de nos petits romans ; je vous cite les heroines de 

of our little novels; I *you. iquote the heroines of 

votre sexe, parceque vous me paraissez faite pour leur 

your sex, because you sto-me ^appear qualified to athem 

ressembler. Il-y-a des pieces de Madame Deshoulieres 

^resemble. There are [of-the] pieces of Madam Deshoulieres 

qu' aucun auteur de nos jours ne pourrait egaler. 

which any author of our days snot *could equal. 

Si vous voulez que je vous cite des hommes, voyez 

If you wish that I ayou *should-cite [of-the] men, see 

avec quelle clarte, quelle simplicite, notre Racine s' 

with what clearness, what simplicity, our Racine shimself 

exprime toujours. Chacun croit, en le lisant, qu' il 

^expresses always. Every-one believes, while shim ^reading, that he 

dirait en prose tout ce que Racine a dit en vers; 

eould-say in prose all that which Racine has said in verse; 

croyez que tout ce qui ne sera pas aussi clair, aussi 

believe that all that which — will-sbe *not as clear, as 

simple, aussi elegant, ne vaudra rien du-tout. 

simple, as elegant, — will-be-worth nothing at-all. 

Vos reflexions, Mademoiselle, vous en apprendront 

Your reflections, miss, syou [of-it] iwill-teach 

cent fois plus que je ne pourrais vous en dire. 

a hundred times more than I — should-be-able *you aof-it Uo-telJ. 

Vous verrez que nos bons ecrivains, Fenelon, Bossuet, 

You will-see that our good writers, Fenelon, Bossuet, 

Racine, Despreaux, employaient toujours le mot propre. 

Racine, Despreaux, employ always the s W ord proper. 

On s' accoutume a bien parler en lisant souvent 

We ^ourselves 1 accustom to swell *speak by reading often 

ceux qui ont bien ecrit ; on se fait une habitude 

those who have swell ^written; we sourselves *make a habit 

d' exprimer simplement et noblement sa pensee sans 

of expressing simply and nobly our thought without 

effort. Ce n' est point une etude ; il n' en coute 

effort. It — is not a study; it snot [of-it] *costs 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 81 

aucune peine de lire ce qui est bon, et de ne lire 

any trouble to read that which is good, and to — read 

que cela. On n' a de maitre que son plaisir et 

only that. We snot 'have any master but our pleasure and 

son gout. 

our taste. 

XLL 



Lettre de Voltaire a Madame Du Deffand. 

Letter from Voltaire to Madam Du Deffand. 

M. 1' envoye de Suede m' a dit, Madame, que vous 

Mr. the envoy from Sweden 3 me ihas stold, madam, that you 

vous-souvenez tou jours de moi avec une bonte qui ne 

remember always [of] »me with a kindness which — 

s' est pas dementie. Nous avons fait, au petit- 

^itself ihas s n ot sbelied. We have taken, at-the pri- 

couvert du roi de la terre qui a le-plus d' esprit, un 

vate-table of-tbe king of the earth who has — most — wit, a 

souper ou il-ne-manquait-que vous. II veut se charger 

supper where there-was-wanting-only you. He wishes ^himself *to-cha«ge 

des regrets que j' ai d' avoir perdu une societe telle 

with-the regrets that I have at having lost [a] company such 

que la-votre, et de vous envoyer ma lettre. 

as yours, and to syou ^convey my letter. 

Vous avez diminue mon envie de faire un tour a 

You have diminished my desire to make a tour to 

Paris, lorsque vous 1' avez abandonne ; mais j' espere 

Paris, when you sit *have ^abandoned; but I hope 

toujours vous y retrouver quelque jour. La retraite 

always syou uhere 2 to-find-again some day. [The] retirement 

a ses charmes, mais Paris a aussi les-siens. 

has its charms, but Paris has also its-own. 

II vous parait etonnant, peut-etre, .que je me vante 

It 3 to-you iseems ^astonishing, perhaps, that I — boast 

d' etre dans la retraite quand je suis a la cour d' 

of being in [the] retirement when I am at the court of 

un grand roi ; mais, Madame, il-ne-faut-pas s' imaginer 

a great king; but, madam, you-must-not — imagine 

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82 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



que j' arrive le matin a une toilette avec une perruque 

that I come in the morning to a toilette with a wig 

poudree a blanc, que j' aille a la messe en ceremonie, 

powdered [to] white, that I go to [the] mass in ceremony, 

que de-la j' assiste a un diner, que je fasse mettre 

that thence I assist at a dinner, that I cause to-put 

dans les gazettes que j' ai les grandes entrees, et 

in the gazettes that I have the great entries, and 

qu' apres diner je compose des cantiques ou des 

that after dinner I compose [of-the] canticles or [of-the] 

romances. 

songs. 

Ma vie n' a pas ce brillant; je n' ai pas la 

My life — has not that brilliancy ; I — have not the 

moindre cour a faire, pas meme au maitre de la 

least court to make, not even to-the master of the 

maison, et ce n' est pas a des cantiques que je 

house, and it — is not at [of-the] spiritual-songs that I 

iravaille. Je suis loge commodement dans un beau 

work. I am lodged comfortably in a beautiful 

palais ; j' ai aupres de moi deux ou trois philosophes 

palace; I have near — me two or three philosophers 

avec lesquels je dine regulierement et plus sobrement 

with whom I dine regularly and more soberly 

qu' un devot. duand je me-porte bien, je soupe avec 

than a devotee. When I am well, I sup with 

le roi, et la conversation ne roule ni sur les tracasseries 

the king, and the conversation — turns neither on — ^broils 

particulieres, ni sur les inutilites generales ; mais sur 

^private, nor on — impertinences ^general ; but on 

le bon gout, sur tous les arts, sur la vraie philosophic, 

— good taste, on all the arts, on — true philosophy, 

sur le moyen d' etre heureux, sur celui de discerner 

on the mode of being happy, on that of discriminating 

le vrai d' avec le faux, sur la liberte de penser, 

the true from [with] the false, on the liberty of thinking, 

sur les verites que Locke enseigne et que la Sorbonne 

on the truths which Locke teaches and which the Sorbonne 

ignore, sur le secret de mettre la paix hors d' un 

is-jgnorant-of, on the secret of putting [the] peace out of a 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 83 

royaume. Enfin, depuis plus de deux ans que je suis 

kingdom. In-fine, for more than two years that I am 

dans ce qu' on croit une cour, et qui n' est 

in that which people believe to-be a court, and which — is 

en effet qu' une retraite de philosophes, il n' y a point 

in fact but a retreat of philosophers, — — there was not 

eu de jour ou je n' aie trouve a m' instruire. 

[had] any day where I snot ihave found to ^myself ^instruct. 

Jamais on n' a mene une vie plus convenable a un 

Never one — has led a life more suitable to a 

malade, car n' ayant aucune visite a faire, aucuns 

sick person, for not having any visit to pay, any 

devoirs a rendre, j' ai tout mon temps a moi, et on 

duties to return, I have all my time to me, and one 

ne peut pas soufTrir plus a son aise. Je jouis de la 

— can not suffer more at his ease. I enjoy [of] the 

tranquil lite et de la liberte que vous goutez ou vous 

tranquillity and [of] the liberty which you relish where you 

etes. Cela vaut bien les orages ridicules que j' ai 

are. That is-*worth iwell the "storms ^ridiculous which I have 

essuyes a Paris. 

gone-through in Paris. 

M. le comte d' Argenson m' a totalement oublie. 

Mr. the count d' Argenson *me !has ^entirely ^forgotten. 

S' il s'etait un peu souvenu de moi lorsqu' il eut 

If he had sa ^little ^remembered [of] ^me when he had 

le ministere de Paris, peut-etre n' aurais - je pas 1' 

the ministry of Paris, perhaps — ^would «have »I 3 not the 

espece de bonheur qu' on m' a enfin procure. 

species of happiness which one «me ihas 2at-last 3 procured. 

Cependant, on aime toujours sa patrie, malgre qu' on- 

However, we ^\o\e ^always our country, in -spite of our- 

en-ait*; on parle toujours de 1' infidele avec plaisir. 

selves; we speak always of the unfaithful with pleasure. 

Je vous rends un compte exact de mon ame, et 

I "you ^render an ^account texact of my soul, and 

vous pouvez me donner un billet de confession quand 

you can *me igive a billet of confession when 

* Qu 1 on en ait. Literally, of-it may-have. 



84 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

vous voudrez; mais il-faudra aussi vous confesser a 

you wish; but you-must also ^yourself ^confess to 

moi, me dire comment vous vous-portez, ce-que vous faites 

me, ame Uell how you are, what you do 

pour votre sante et pour votre bonheur, quand vous 

for your health and for your happiness, when you 

comptez retourner a Paris, et comment vous prenez les 

count to-return to Paris, and how you take the 

choses de la vie. 

things of [the] life. 

Portez-vous bien, Madame, et souvenez-vous du 

Be well, madam, and remember [of]-the 

plus attache et du plus sensible de vos serviteurs. 

most attached and [of J-the most sensible of your servants. 



XLII. 

Lettre de Racine a son Jtls. 

Letter from Racine to his son. 

II me parait par votre lettre que vous portez un peu 

It ato-me iseems by your letter that you [carry] *a 3 little 

d' envie a Mademoiselle de la C, de-ce-qu' elle a 

— tenvy to Miss de la C, because she has 

lu plus de comedies et de romans que vous. Je vous 

read more — comedies and — novels than you. I *you. 

dirai, avec la sincerite avec laquelle je suis oblige de 

iwill-tell, with the sincerity with which I am obliged *to 

vous parler, que j' ai un extreme chagrin que vous 

ayou no-speak, that I have an extreme chagrin that you 

fassiez tant de cas de toutes ces niaiseries, qui ne 

make so-much of [case] [of] all these fooleries, which — 

doivent servir tout-au-plus qu' a delasser quelquefois 1' 

must serve at-the-most but to recreate sometimes the 

esprit, mais qui ne devraient point vous tenir autant 

mind, but which — ought not *you *to-keep so-much 

a cceur qu' elles font. Vous etes engage dans des 

at heart as they do. You are engaged in [of-the] 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 85 

etudes tres-serieuses, qui doivent attirer votre principale 

sstudies ivery serious, which ought to-draw your principal 

attention; et pendant-que vous y etes engage, et que 

attention ; and whilst you there are engaged, and when 

nous payons des maitres pour vous instruire, vous 

we pay [of-the] masters in-order ^y u no-instruct, you 

devez eviter tout ce qui peut dissiper votre esprit et 

ought to-avoid all that which can dissipate your mind and 

vous detourner de votre etude. Non-seulement votre 

syou Uurn from your study. Not only your 

conscience et la religion vous y obligent, mais 

conscience and [the] religion sy u no-it ^oblige, but 

vous-meme devez avoir assez de consideration et d' 

yourself ought to-have enough of consideration and of 

egard pour moi, pour vous conformer un peu a mes 

regard for me, in-order ^yourself Uo-conform a little to my 

sentiments pendant-que vous etes dans un age ou vous 

sentiments whilst you are in an age in-which you 

devez vous laisser conduire. 

ought ^yourself Uo-allow to-be-led. 

Je ne dis pas que vous ne lisiez quelquefois des 

I — say not that you snot ishould-sread sometimes [of-the] 

choses qui puissent vous-divertir 1' esprit, et vous voyez 

things which may divert your mind, and you see 

que je vous ai mis moi-rneme entre les mains assez 

that I [you] have put myself between your hands enough 

de livres francais capables de vous amuser; mais je 

of *books * French capable to ay u idmuse ; but I 

serais inconsolable si ces sortes de livres vous inspiraient 

would-be inconsolable if these sorts of books ayou inspired 

du degout pour des lectures plus utiles, et surtout 

with-[the] dislike for [of-the] readings more useful, and especially 

pour des livres de piete et de morale, dont vous ne 

for [of-the] books of piety and of morality, of-which you — 

parlez jamais, et pour lesquels il semble que vous n' 

*never, and for which it seems that you no 



ayez plus aucun gout, quoique vous soyez temoin du 

9 have longer any liking, although you be witness of-the 

veritable plaisir que j' y prends preferablement a 

true pleasure which 1 ^in-them Uake preferably to 



COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



toute autre chose. Croyez-moi, quand vous saurez 

any s e |se Uhing. Believe me, when you will-know 

parler de comedies et de romans, vous n' en serez 

to-speak of comedies and of novels, you — [of-it] will-sbe 

guere plus avarice pour le monde, et ce ne sera point 

^hardly more advanced for the world, and it — will-^be *not 

par cet endroit-la que vous serez le-plus estime. Je 

through that place that you will-be most esteemed. I 

remets a vous en parler plus au-long et plus 

put-off to ^to-you 3 f-it »speak more lengthily and more 

particulierement quand je vous reverrai, et vous me 

particularly when I syou *will-ssee- 4 again, and you *me 

ferez plaisir alors de me parler a-coeur-ouvert* la-dessus 

*will-do a pleasure then to ato-me *speak openly there-upon 

et de ne vous point cacher de moi. Vous jugez bien 

and ato — ^yourself *not sconceal from me. You judge well 

que je ne cherche point a vous chagriner, et que je n' 

that I — seek not to *you »chagrin, and that I snot 

ai autre dessein que de contribuer a vous-rendre 1' 

*have other design but of contributing to render your 

esprit solide, et a vous mettre en etat de ne point 

mind solid, and to *you x place in a state of — not 

faire de deshonneur quand vous viendrez a paraitre 

making any dishonour when you will-come to appear 

dans le monde. Je vous assure qu' apres mon salut 

into the world. I a you ^assure that after my salvation 

c' est la chose dont je suis le-plus occupe. Ne regardez 

it is the thing of- which I am most occupied. — consider 

point tout ce que je vous dis comme une reprimande, 

not all that which I *you Uell as a reproof, 

mais comme les avis d' un pere qui vous aime 

but as the advices of a father who *y u 'Joves 

tendrement et qui ne songe qu' a vous donner des 

tenderly and who — thinks only to *you *give fof-the] 



marques de son amitie. 

tokens of his friendship. 



* A cceur ouvert. Literally, at heart open. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 87 



XLIIL 



Lettre de Courier a Madame Pigalle. 

Letter from Courier to Madam Pigalle. 

Vous aurez de ma prose, chere cousine, taut que 

You will-have of my prose, dear cousin, as-much as 

vous en voudrez, et du style a vingt sous, c' est a 

you ^of-it iwill, and of-the style at twenty sous, that is to 

dire du meilleur, qui ne vous coutera rien que le 

say of-the best, which — syou * will-cost nothing but the 

port ; si je ne vous en ai pas adresse plus-tot, c' est 

postage; if I — *to-you *of-it *have *not sdirected sooner, it is 

que nous autres, vieux cousins, nous n' ecrivons 

because we others, old cousins, we — write 

guere a nos jeunes cousines sans savoir auparavant 

but-seldom to our young cousins without knowing before 

comment nos lettres seront recues, n' etant pas, comme 

how our letter will-be received, — being not, like 

vous autres, toujours assures de plaire. Ne m' accusez 

you others, always certain of pleasing. — ame »accuse 

ni de paresse ni d' indifference ; je voulais voir si 

neither of laziness nor of indifference; I wanted to-see whether 

vous songeriez que je ne vous ecrivais pas. Depuis 

you would-think that I — ^to-you *was-3writing anot. Since 

pres de deux ans, vous n' avez aucun air de vous 

nearly — two years, you a n ot *have any appearance of [you] 

en apercevoir ; moi, pique de cela, j' allais vous 

[ofj-ajt ^perceiving; I, stung by that, I was-going *with ayou 

quereller, quand vous m' avez prevenu fort poliment : 

*to-quarrel, when you »me ihave ^come-before very politely: 

j' aime vos reproches, et vous avez mieux repondu a 

I like your reproofs, and you have better answered to 

mon silence que peut-etre vous n' eussiez fait a mes 

my silence than perhaps you — would-have done to my 

lettres. 

letters. 



COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



On me mande de vous des choses qui me 

People 2 me lwrite-sword about you on-[the] things which ^me 

plaisent beaucoup : Vous parlez de moi quelquefois, vous 

iplease much : You speak of me sometimes, you 

jouez avec vos enfants, et vous vous ennuyez. Voila 

play with your children, and you ^yourself *weary. This-is 

une conduite admirable ! De mon cote je m' ennuie 

an ^conduct ^admirable ! On my side I ^myself iweary 

aussi, tant que je puis, comme-de-raison*. Ne nous 

too, as-much as I can, as it-is-fit. — a W e 

sommes - nous pas promis de ne-point rire 1' un sans 

ihave Ho-each-other anot ^promised Ho *not laugh the one without 

P autre? Pour moi, je ne sais ce-que c' est que 

the other? as for me, I s n ot iknow what that is [that] 

manquer a ma parole, et je garde mon serieux, comptant 

to-fail in my word, and I keep my gravity, arelying 

bien que vous tenez le-votre. Je trouverais fort mauvais 

iwell that you keep yours. I would-find it very bad 

qu' il en fat autrement, et si quelqu' un vous 

that it [of-it] should-be otherwise, and if some one ayou 

amuse, a mon retour, qu' il prenne garde a lui ; point 

lamuse, on my return let him take care of himself; no 

de plaisir, ma cousine, point de plaisir sans votre 

— pleasure, my cousin, no — pleasure without your 

cousin. 

cousin. 

Helas ! pour tenir ma promesse je n' ai besoin 

Alas! in-order to-keep my promise I ^no »have need 

que de penser a cinq cents lieues qui nous separent, 

but of thinking of five hundred leagues which iua ^separate, 

a deux longues, longues annees ecoulees sans vous 

of two long, long years passed without ayou 

voir, et combien encore a passer de la mome maniere ! 

»seeing, and how-many yet to pass in the same manner! 

Ces idees-la ne me quittent point, et me donnent une 

These ideas — "me x quit not, and *me igive a 

physionomie de misanthropic et repentir. Jeux 

physiognomy of misanthropy and repentance. ^Sports 



Commc de raison. Literally, as of reason. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 89 

innocens, petits bals, et soirees du jardin, qu' etes- 

tinnocent, little balls, and evenings of-the garden, what has 

vous devenus! Non, je ne suis plus le cousin qui 

ayou *become-of ! No, I »no iam longer the cousin who 

vous amusait ; ce n' est plus le temps de dom Bedaine 

ayou ^amused; it ^no lis longer the time of dom Bedaine 

et de la dame empaillee. En me voyant maintenant 

and of the lady stuffed. In 2 me ^seeing now 

vous ne me reconnaitriez pas, et vous demanderiez 

you — 4me 1 would- 3 recognize 2 not, and you would-ask 

encore : " ou est le cousin qui rit ?" Voila ce-que c' 

again: "where is the cousin who laughs?" Behold what this 

est de s' eloigner de vous; on s' ennuie, on 

is to ^oneself idistance from you; one ^himself itires, one 

devient maussade, on vieillit d' un siecle par an. 

becomes ungenteel, one grows-old of a century [by] a year. 

Pour etre heureux, il faut, ou ne-pas vous connaitre. 

In-order to-be happy, it-is necessary, either not %you ito-know, 

ou ne jamais vous quitter. 

or — never ^you lleave. 

Je n' ai guere bailie pres de vous, ni vous avec 

I — have seldom gaped near — you, nor you with 

moi, ce me semble, si-ce-n' est* peut-etre en famille 

me, it ^to-me i seems, except perhaps in family 

aux visites de nos chers parens; eh-bien, depuis-que 

at-the visits of our dear relations; well-then, since 

je ne vous vois plus je bailie du matin au soir. 

I no ayou 2 S ee longer I gape from-[the] morning to-[the] evening. 

La nature, vous le savez, m' a donne un organe 

[The] nature, you ^it iknow, »me *has sgiven an organ 

favorable a cet exercice ; je bailie en verite comme un 

favourable to that exercise; I gape in truth like a 

coffre ; vous, a-cause de mon absence la-bas, vous devez 

coffer; you, because of my absence yonder, you ought 

bailler aussi comme une petite tabatiere. 

to-gape also like a little snuff-box. 

Mais savez-vous ce-qui m' arrive de ne plus rire ? 

But know-you what ato-me ihappens of no longer laughing? 

* Si-ce-n' est. Literally, if that not is. 
D* 



90 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

je deviens mediant. Imaginez un peu a quoi je passe 

I become wicked. Imagine a little to what I spend 

mon temps. Je reve nuit et jour aux moyens de tuer 

my time. I muse night and day to-the means of killing 

des gens que je n' ai jamais vus, qui ne m' ont 

[of-the] people that I — have never seen, who — sme ihave 

fait ni bien ni mal; cela n' est-il pas joli? Ah! 

adone neither good nor evil; nhat — *is [it] ^not pretty? Ah! 

croyez-moi, cousine, la tristesse ne vaut rien, reprenons 

believe me, cousin, [the] sadness — is-worth nothing, let-us-resume 

notre ancienne allure ; il - n' y - a de bonnes gens que 

our ancient gait ; anot-Uhere-^are any good people but 

ceux qui rient; rions toutes-les-fois que 1' occasion 

those who laugh; let-us-laugh whenever — the opportunity 

s' en presentera, ou meme sans occasion. 

^itself afor-it ishall-offer, or even without opportunity. 



XLIV. 

Leltre du meme a la meme. 

Letter from-the same to the same. 

Je re<jus a Rome, chere cousine, il-y-a six mois 

I received at Rome, dear cousin, «ago ^six ^months 

environ, une lettre de vous, et comme elle me fit 

*about, a letter from you, and as it *me *did 

grand plaisir, j' y repondis sur-le-champ. Mais je 

great pleasure, I »toit ^answered immediately. But I 

gardai ma lettre afin de vous la porter moi-meme. 

kept my letter in-order to no-you *it *carry myself. 

Car alors j' avais resolu de partir pour Paris, ou je 

For then I had resolved to set-out for Paris, where I 

comptais vous trouver. Cependant il arriva que je ne 

reckoned ayou Uo-find. However it happened that I — 

partis point. Ainsi cette reponse est restee dans 

did-'set-out *not. Therefore that answer has remained in 

ma poche. Que voulez-vous? 1' homme propose 

my pocket. What would you have? [the] man proposes 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. gi 

et Dieu dispose. Vous qui deviez etre ici au 

and God disposes. You who ought to-be here at-the 

commencement d' avril, vous y venez a la fin de 

beginning of April, you ^hither *come at the end of 

juillet, et vous y restez jusqu' au jour de mon 

July, and you there remain even to-the day of my 

arrivee. Cela avait tout 1' air d' une chose arrangee, 

arrival. That had quite the air of an nhing ^arranged, 

comme si nous fussions convenus de nous eviter. 

as if we should-be agreed to ^each-other lavoid. 

J' entrais par une porte et vous sortiez par V 

I was-entering through one door and you were-going-out through the 

autre. Ne me demandez pas si j' enrageai. Ce fut 

other. — *me *ask not if I ran-mad. It was 

le commencement de mon guignon; rien ne m' a 

the beginning of my ill-luck; nothing — »me «ftas 

reussi depuis. 

^succeeded since. 

Tout- a- 1' heure* encore deux gendarmes me 

A-little-while-ago yet two gendarmes *me 

gardaient a vue jour et nuit ; le jour ils me 

iwere-watching at sight day and night ; the day they *me 

couvaient - des - yeuxt, et la nuit, avec deux chandelles, 

iwere-looking-through-and-through, and the night, with two candles, 

ils m' eclairaient pour dormir, de crainte qu' on ne 

they 2 me »were-lighting in-order to-sleep, for fear that one — 

m' enlevat par les airs. Je ne pouvais rien 

sme ishould-carry-off through the air. I *not *was-3able sany-thing 

faire sans 1' assistance de ces messieurs. On vous 

«to-do without the assistance of those gentlemen. People *to-you 

aura conte cela. J' etais un conjure, y avais 

^will-have delated 3 that. I was a conspirator, I had 

entrepris de faire passer la couronne dans une autre 

undertaken to make spass Uhe acrown into an other 

branche. Si 1' on m' eut coupe la tete pour crime d' 

branch. If they — had cut-off my head for crime of 



* Tout a. P heure, all at the hour. 

f Couvaient des yeux. Literally, were-brooding with-the eyes. 



92 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

etat, c' eut ete pour vous un grand lustre : rien 

state, it would-have been for you a great splendour: nothing 

n' honore plus une famille, et tous mes parens auraient 

-r- honours more a family, and all my relations would-have 

mis cela dans leurs papiers. Malheureusement on 

placed that in their papers. Unfortunately they 

s'apereut que j' etais un pauvre diable qui ne savait 

perceived that I was a poor devil who — knew 

pas meme qu' il-y-eut des conspirations, et on m' a 

not even that there-were [of-the] conspiracies, and they »me *have 

laisse aller. Tout cela ne me serait point arrive si 

*let go. All that — sto-me ^would-sbe «not *come-upon if 

je vous avais vue cette annee, car un bonheur amene 

I syou ihad *seen this year, for one blessing brings 

V autre. Mais une-fois en guignon, tout tombe sur 

[the] another. But once in ill-luck, every-thing falls on 

un pauvre homme. 

a poor man. 

Je vois vos enfans le dimanche chez M. 

I see your children on the Sunday at-the-house-of Mr. 

Marchand; ils sont jolis et dignes de vous; Y aine 

Marchand; they are pretty and worthy of you; the eldest 

surtout montre de F esprit. Je ne laisse pas, tout diables 

especially shows [of-the] wit. I — omit not, all devils 

qu' ils sont, de leur enseigner quelquefois des 

as they are, to *them Ueach sometimes some of-the 

polissonneries de mon temps, inconnues dans ce siecle-ci, 

waggish-tricks of my time, unknown in this age, 

oii tout degenere. Alfred fera tout ce qu' il 

in which every-thing degenerates. Alfred will-do all that which he 

voudra, mais je suis fache qu' on les desole pour 

will-wish, but I am sorry that they *them trouble for 

des etudes assommantes, et dont 1' utilite apres tout 

[of-the] studies, wearisome, and of-which the utility after all 

est douteuse. 

is doubtful. 

Ne comptez-vous pas, dites-moi, vous ou votre 

— reckon you not, tell me, you or your 

mari, venir bientot a Paris? Si vous ne venez, j' 

husband, to-come soon to Paris? If you ariot 'come, I 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 93 

irai vous voir. Je pensais d' abord devoir attendre 

will-go 2you Uo-see. I thought at first to-be-bound to-wait-for 

la belle saison ; mais depuis, reflechrssant sur 1' 

the fine season ; but since, reflecting on the 

incertitude de la vie, j' ai trouve que c' etait sottise 

uncertainty of [the] life, I have found that it was folly 

de differer un plaisir, surtout quand on a comme moi 

to defer a pleasure, especially when one has like me 

quarante ans et des cheveux blancs : rien n' est 

forty years and [of-the] ahairs iwhite: nothing — is 

plus vrai. J' en ai beauco*ip et je les garde 

more true. I sof-them *have ^many and I athem *keep 

precieusement pour vous les faire-voir. Que direz- 

carefully in-order sto-you athem *to-show. What will^say 

vous a cela? car enfin, ou le proverbe ment, ou ma 

»you to that? for at-last, either the proverb lies, or my 

tete n' est pas celle d' un fou, comme il vous a plu 

head — is not that [of a] fool, as it ^you. *has ^pleased 

de le dire, sans reproches, en bien des rencontres. Je 

to [it] say, without reproaches, in many [of-the] encounters. I 

veux vous demander la-dessus une petite explication 

wish ayou ito-ask there-upon a little explanation 

au coin du feu, nous deux, si je m' y trouve, 

at-the corner of-the fire, we two, if I 2 m y Se if 3there ifind, 

comme je 1' espere, avec vous cet hiver. 

as I ^t ihope, with you this winter. 

Repondez-moi bien vite. Yos lettres sont charmantes : 

Answer me very quickly. Your letters are charming: 

j' aime fort a en recevoir, quoiqu' il n' y 

I like very-much to [ofj-^them ^receive, although there — aof-them 

paraisse guere. J' en regrettai fort une que je 

iis-sign seldom. I *of-them ^regretted ^very-much sone that I 

devais avoir a Milan, et que je n' y trouvai point, 

was to-have at Milan, and which I — 3 there ifound 2not, 

sans doute par le retard de mon voyage. Vous avez 

without doubt through the delay of my voyage. You have 

un style naturel et fort agreable. Pour moi, je 

a style unaffected and very agreeable. j3s for me, I 

grifTonne tout le jour des choses ennuyeuses, et je 

scribble all the day [of-the] athings niresome, and I 



94 COLLQTS PROGRESSIVE 

n' en puis plus quand il-s'agit de faire une lettre 

*not 4 f-it ican 3 m0 re when the-matter-is. to produce a Letter 

qui m' amuserait. 

which ame i would -am use. 



XLV. 

Lettre de Voltaire a Helvetius, sur V art 

Letter from Voltaire to Helvetius 7 on the art 

d? ecrire. 

of writingi 

Je me gronde bien de ma paresse? mon eher et 

I ^myself *chide much for my laziness, my dear and 

aimable ami ; mais j' ai ete si indignement occupe 

amiable friend ; but I have been so unworthily occupied 

de prose depuis un mois, que j' osais a-peine vous 

with prose since a month, that I dared scarcely *to-you 

parler de vers, Mon imagination s'appesantit dans 

*speak of verses. My imagination has-grown-dull in 

des etudes qui sont a la poesie ce-que des garde- 

[of-the] studies which are to [the] poetry what [of-the] lumber- 

meubles sombres et poudreux sont a une salle de bal 

rooms dark and dusty are to a «room — »ball 

bien eclairee. II - faut secouer la poussiere pour vous 

well lighted. It-is-necessary to-shake-off the dust in-order ayou 

repondre. Vous m' avez ecrit, mon charmant ami, 

Uo-answer. You ato-me »have ^written, my charming friend, 

une lettre ou je reconuais votre genie. Vous ne trouvez 

a letter in-which I recognise your genius. You — find 

point Boileau assez fort ; il n' a rien de sublime, son 

not Boileau ^enough ^strong; he — has nothing — sublime, his 

imagination n' est point brulante, j' en conviens avec 

imagination — is not burning, I ato-it »agree with 

vous : aussi il me semble qu' il ne passe point pour 

you : therefore it sto-me iseems that he — passes not for 

un poete sublime, mais il a fait ce qu' il pouvait 

a *poet ^sublime, but he has done that which he could 



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ct ce qu' il voulait faire, II a mis la raison en vers 

and that which he wished to-do. He has put [the] reason into verses 

liarmoiaieux; il est clair, consequent, facile, heureux 

^harmonious; he is clear, consecutive, easy, happy 

dans ses transitions ; il ne s'eleve pas, mais il ne tombe 

in his transitions; he — rises not, but he — *falls 

^uere. Ses sujets ne component pas cette elevation 

Seldom. His subjects — permit not that elevation 

dont ceux que vous traitez sont susceptibles. Vous 

of- which those that you treat are susceptible. You 

avez senti votre talent, comme il a senti le-sien. Vous 

have perceived your talent, as he has perceived his. You 

etes pbilosophe, vous voyez tout en grand; votre 

are a philosopher, you see every-thing in grandi your 

pinceau est fort et hardi. La nature en tout cela vous 

pencil is strong and bold. [The] nature in all that zyou 

a mis, je vous le dis avec la-plus-grande sincerite, 

-has ^placed, I 'to-you »tt *teli witli the-greatest sincerity, 

fort au-dessus de Despreaux ; mais ces talents-la, 

very-much aboxne — Despreaux; but these talents, 

quelque grands qu' ils soient, ne seront rien sans 

however great [that] they may-be, — will-fee sotfcing without 

les-siens. Vous avez d'autant-plus besoin de son 

his. You have so-much-the-more need -of his 

-exactitude, que la grandeur de vos idees souffre moins 

exactness, that the greatness of your ideas suffers less 

la gene et 1' esclavage. II ne vous coute point de 

[the] restraint and [the] confinement. It — syou *costs not to 

penser, mais il coute infiniment d' ecrke. Je vous 

think, but it costs infinitely to write. I ato-you 

precberai done eternelJement cet art d' ecrire que 

-will-preach then eternally that art of writing which 

Despreaux a si bien connu et si bien enseigne, ce 

Despreaux has so well known and so well taught, that 

respect pour la langue, cette liaison, cette suite d' idees, 

respect for [the] language, that connection, that coherency of ideas, 

cet air aise avec lequel il conduit son lecteur, ce 

-that ^manner aeasy with which he carries-along his reader, that 

natural qui est le fruit de 1' art, et cette apparence 

talent which is the fruit of [the] art, and that appearance 



96 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

de facilite qu' on ne doit qu' au travail. Un mot 

of facility which one — owes only to-[the] labour. One word 

mis hors de sa place gate la plus belle pensee. Les 

put out of its place spoils the most beautiful thought. The 

idees de Boileau, je 1' avoue encore, ne sont jamais 

ideas of Boileau, I ait ^confess again, — are never 

grandes, mais elles ne sont jamais defigurees: enfin, 

grand, but they — are never disfigured: in-fine, 

pour etre au-dessus de lui, il-faut commencer par 

in-order to-be above — him, it-is-necessary to-commence by 

ecrire aussi nettement et aussi correctement que lui. 

writing as neatly and as correctly as he. 

Yotre danse haute ne doit pas se permettre un 

Your adance *high — ought not ^itself Uo-allow one 

faux pas ; il n' en fait point dans ses petits menuets. 

false step; he — [of]-*them *makes not in his little minuets. 

Vous etes brillant de pierreries ; son habit est simple., 

You are brilliant with precious-stones; his garment is simple v 

mais bien fait. II faut que vos diamants soient bien 

but well made. It needs that your diamonds be weli 

mis en ordre, sans quoi vous auriez Y air gene 

put in order, without which you would-have [the] an *air ^uneasy 

avec le diademe en tete, Envoyez-moi done, mon cher 

with the diadem on your head» Send me then, my dear 

ami, quelque chose d' aussi bien travaille que vous 

friend, some thing [of] as well laboured as you 

imaginez noblement; ne dedaignez point tout-a-la-fois 

imagine nobly; — disdain not all-at-once 

d' etre possesseur de la mine et ouvrier de Y or qu' 

to be possessor of the mine and workman of the gold which 

elle produit. Vous sentez combien, en vous parlam 

it produces. You feel hovv-mueh, while *to-you *speakiii£ 

ainsi, je m' interesse a votre gloire et a celle des 

thus, I ^myself ^interest in your glory and in that of-the 

arts. Mon amitie pour vous a redouble encore a votre 

arts. My friendship for you has ^redoubled »still on you: 

dernier voyage. J' ai-bien-la-mine de ne plus faire 

last journey. 1 am-like to no longer make 



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de vers. Je ne veux plus aimer que les-votres. Adieu ; 

— verses. I *no *wish longer to-love but yours. Adieu; 

je vous aimerai toute ma vie. 

I *you ^will-love all my life. 



XLVL 

Lettre de Voltaire a Helvetius. — Cornells sur 

Letter from Voltaire to Helvetius. Counsels on 

P art de /aire des vers. 

the art of writing [of-the] verses. 

Mori cher ami, 1' ami des Muses et de la verite, votre 

My dear friend, [the] friend of-the Muses and of [the] truth, your 

Epitre est pleine d' une hardiesse de raison bien 

epistle is full of a boldness of reason very-much 

au-dessus de votre age, et plus encore de nos laches 

above — your age, and *more lst ^ 11 — our cowardly 

et timides ecrivains qui riment pour leurs libraires, qui 

and timid writers who rhyme for their booksellers, who 

se resserrent sous le compas d' un censeur royal 

^themselves ^restrain within the compass of a s C ensor *royal 

envieux ou plus timide qu ? eux. Miserables oiseaux a 

-envious or more timid than they. Miserable birds for 

qui on rogne les ailes, qui veulent s' enlever, et 

whom one clips the wings, who wish ^themselves no-raise, and 

qui retombent en se cassant les jambes ! Vous avez un 

who fall-down in — breaking their legs ! You have a 

genie male, et votre ouvrage etincelle d' imagination. 

sgenius *manly, and your work sparkles with imagination. 

J' aime mieux quelques-unes de vos sublimes fautes que 

I like better some of your sublime faults than 

les mediocres beautes dont on nous veut affadir. 

the mediocre beauties with-which they s U s iwish ^to-disgust. 

Si vous me permettez de vous dire en general ce-que 

If you sme ipermit to *you *tell in general what 

je pense pour les progres qu' un si bel art peut 

I think in-order-to the progress which =an iso ^beautiful art can 
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COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



faire entre vos mains, je vous dirai : craignez, en 

do in your hands, I vyou Hvill-tell : fear, while 

atteignant le grand, de sauter au gigantesque ; n' 

attaining the grand, to jump to-the bombastic; — 

orTrez que des images vraies, et servez-vous toujours 

present only [of-the] aimages Urue, and make-use always 

du mot propre. Voulez-vous une petite regie in fai Bible 

of-the 3 W0 rd ^proper. Wish you a little rule infallible 

pour les vers? la voici. Q,uand une pensee est juste 

for [the] verses ? ajt lhere-sis. When a thought is just 

et noble, il - n'y - a encore rien de fait ; il faut 

and noble, there-is-not yet any-thing — done; it-is-necessary 

voir si la maniere dont vous 1' exprimez en vers 

to-see whether the manner in-which you *it ^express in verse 

serait belle en prose : et si votre vers, depouille 

would-be beautiful in prose: and whether your verse, stripped 

de la rime et de la cesure, vous parait alors charge 

of the rhyme and of the caesura, no-you ^appears then loaded 

d' un mot superflu ; s' il - y - a dans la construction 

with a sword ^superfluous ; whether there-is in the construction 

le moindre defaut ; si une conjonction est oubliee ; 

the least fault ; whether a conjunction is omitted ; 

enfin, si le mot le plus propre n' est pas employe, 

in-fine, if the word the most proper — is not employed, 

ou s' il n' est pas a sa place, concluez alors que 1' 

or if it — is not in its place, conclude then that the 

or de cette pensee n' est pas bien enchasse. Soyez 

gold of that thought — is not well set. Be 

sur que des vers qui auront P un de ces defauts 

sure that [of-the] verses which shall-have [the] one of these faults 

ne se-retiendront jamais par cceur, ne se feront 

— Hvill-abe- 4 retained anever by heart, — nhemselves *will-3make 

point relire ; et il-n'y-a-de bons vers que ceux 

•not read-again; and there-are-not-any good verses but those 

qu' on relit et qu' on retient malgre soi. 

which one reads-again and which one retains in-spite-of oneself. 

Il-y-en-a beaucoup de cette espece dans votre epitre, 

There-are many of that kind in your epistle, 

tels que personne n' en pcut faire a votre age, ct 

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tels qu' on en fesait il-y-a cinquante ans. Ne 

such as they [of-them] made 3 ago 'fifty ^years. — 

craignez done point d' honorer le Parnasse de vos 

fear *then lnot t0 honour [the] Parnassus with your 

talents ; ils vous honoreront sans doute, parceque vous 

talents; they *you »will-honour without doubt, because you 

ne negligerez jamais vos devoirs; et puis voila de 

— will-^neglect 'never your duties; and then they-are — 

plaisans devoirs ! Les fonctions de votre etat ne sont- 

pleasing duties! The functions of your condition — are 

elles pas quelque chose de bien difficile pour une ame 

they not some thing — very difficult for a mind 

comme la-votre ? Cette besogne se-fait comme on regie 

like yours? This work is-done as one regulates 

la depense de sa maison et le livre de son maitre-d'hotel. 

the expense of his house and the book of his purveyor. 

Quoi ! pour etre fermier general on n' aurait pas la 

What ! in-order to-be farmer general one — could-^have *not the 

liberte de penser ! He, morbleu ! Atticus etait fermier 

liberty of thinking! Oh, zounds! Atticus was farmer 

general, les chevaliers Romains etaient fermiers generaux, 

general, the knights *Roman were farmers general, 

et pensaient en Romains. Continuez done, Atticus. 

and thought like Romans. Continue then, Atticus. 

Je vous remercie tendrement de ce que vous avez 

I ayou ithank tenderly for that which you have 

fait pour d' Arnaud. J' ose vous recommander ce jeune 

done for d' Arnaud. I dare *to-you trecommend that young 

homme comme mon fils ; il a du merite ; il est pauvre 

man as my son; he has [of- the] merit; he is poor 

et vertueux; il sent tout ce que vous valez; il 

and virtuous; he feels all that which you are-worth; he 

vous sera attache toute sa vie. Le plus beau 

3 to-you *will-be ^attached all his life. The most beautiful 

partage de 1' humanite, c' est de pouvoir faire du 

lot of [the] humanity [it] is to be-able to-do [of-the] 

bien ; c' est ce-que vous savez et ce-que vous pratiquez 

good; it is what you know and what you practise 

mieux que moi. Madame du Chatelet vous remerciera 

better than I. Madam du Chatelet ayou 'will-thank 



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des eloges qu' elle merite, et moi, je passerai ma 

for-the praises which she deserves, and ^myself *I will-pass my 

vie a me rendre moins indigne de ceux que vous 

life in ^myself ^rendering less unworthy of those which you 

m' adressez. Pardon de-vous-ecrire en vile prose, mais 

sto-me ^address. Pardon for-writing-to-you in vile prose, but 

je n' ai pas un instant a moi. Les jours sont trop 

I — have not a moment for myself. The days are too 

courts. Adieu ; quand pourrai - je en passer quelques 

short. Adieu ; when shall -sbe- 3 able *I [of-them] to-spend some 

uns avec vous? 

ones with you? 



XLVII. 

Lettre de J. J. Rousseau a un Jeune Homme. 

Letter from J. J. Rousseau to a Young Man. 

Vous ignorez, monsieur, que vous ecrivez a un pauvre 

You are-ignorant, sir, that you write to a poor 

homme accable de maux, et de-plus fort occupe, 

man overwhelmed with evils, and moreover much occupied, 

qui n' est guere en etat de vous repondre et qui 

who — is but-little in a condition to 2you ^answer, and who 

le serait encore moins d' etablir avec vous la 

*so i would-be ^still 3iess to establish with you the 

societe que vous lui proposez. Vous m' honorez, 

intercourse . which you *to-him ^propose. You 3 me ^honour, 

en pensant que je pourrais vous y etre utile, et 

in thinking that I could sto-you «in-it *be ^useful, and 

vous etes louable du motif qui vous le fait 

you are commendable for-the motive which *you 4 it ^causes 

desirer ; mais sur ce motif meme, je ne vois rien de 

sto-desire ; but ^cm 3 that ^motive *even, I — see nothing — 

moins necessaire que de vous etablir a Montmorency: 

less necessary than to ^yourself ^establish at Montmorency:" 



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vous n' avez pas besoin d' a Her chercher si loin les 

you — have no need to go 3 to-seek *so sfar the 

principes de la morale. 

principles of [the] morality. 

Rentrez dans votre coeur, et vous les y 

Descend into your heart, and you nhem athere 

trouverez; et je ne pourrai rien vous dire a 

iwill-find; and I *not 1 shall-sbe-*able 'any-thing eyou no-tell on 

ce sujet, que ne vous dise encore mieux votre 

that subject, that *not eyou scan-Hell 'still abetter lyour 

conscience, quand vous la voudrez consulter. La 

•conscience, when you 3 it ^hall-wish ^to-cousult. [The] 

vertu, monsieur, n' est pas une science qui s'apprend 

virtue, sir, — is not a science which is-learned 

avec tant d' apparei] : pour etre vertueux, il suffit 

with so-much — preparation : in-order to-be virtuous, it suffices 

de vouloir 1' etre ; et si vous avez bien cette volonte, 

to wish 3 so no-be ; and if you ^have Uruly that wish, 

tout est fait; votre bonheur est decide. 

all is done ; your happiness is decided. 

S' il m' appartenait de vous donner des 

If it sto-me ibelonged to ^you igive [of-the] 

conseils, le premier que je voudrais vous donneais serait 

counsels, the first that I would-wish *you Uo-give would-be 

de ne point vous livrer a ce gout que vous dites 

2to *not sat-all ^yourself sgive-^up to that taste which you declare 

avoir pour la vie contemplative, qui n' est 

yourself to-have for [the] a siife icon tempi ative, which — is 

qu' une paresse de 1' ame, condamnable a tout age, 

but a laziness of the soul, blamable at every age, 

et surtout au-votre. L' homme n' est point fait 

and especially at-yours. [The] man — is not made 

pour mediter, mais pour agir : la vie laborieuse que 

in-order to-meditate, but in order to-act : the 2 life laborious which 

Dieu nous impose n' a rien que de doux au 

God a to-us ^prescribes — has nothing but of pleasant to-the 

coeur de 1' homme de bien qui s' y livre 

heart of the man of virtue who himself 3to-it ^surrenders 

en vue de remplir son devoir; et la vigueur de 

in the design of discharging his duty; and the vigour of 



102 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

la jeunesse ne vous a pas ete donnee pour la 

[the] youth — Ho-you x has s n ot abeen 'given in-order ail 

perdre a d' oisives contemplations. 

Uo«waste at [of] idle contemplations. 

Travaillez done, monsieur, dans 1' etat ou 

Labour then, sir, in the condition in-which 

vous ont place vos parents et la Providence: 

'you shave ^placed *your ^parents aand [the] 'Providence: 

voila le premier precepte de la vertu que vous voulez 

this-is the first precept of the virtue which you wish 

suivre ; et si le sejour de Paris, joint a 1' emploi 

to-follow; and if the residence of Paris, joined to the office 

que vous remplissez, vous parait d' un trop difficile 

which you fill, ^to-you i appears of 3 a Uoo ^difficult 

alliage avec elle, faites mieux, monsieur, retournez 

combination with it, do better, sir, return 

dans votre province ; allez vivre dans le sein de votre 

into your province ; go live in the bosom of your 

famille ; servez, soignez vos vertueux parents ; c' est 

family; serve, take-care-of your virtuous parents: it is 

la que vous remplirez veritablement les soins que 

there that you wilMfulfil Uruly the cares which 

la vertu vous impose. 

[the] virtue ^Ho-you ^prescribes. 

Une vie dure est plus-facile a supporter en 

A 2iif e ^laborious is easier to endure in the 

province que de poursuivre la fortune a Paris, 

country than to pursue [the] fortune in Paris, 

surtout quand on sait, comme vous ne 1' ignorez 

especially when one knows, as you — 6 it »are-signorant-*of 

pas, que les-plus indignes maneges y font plus de 

snot, that most shameful artifices there make more — 

fripons gueux que de parvenus. Vous ne devez point 

^rogues ipoor than — upstarts. You — must not 

vous estimer malheureux de vivre comme fait 

^yourself ^esteem unfortunate in living as does 

monsieur votre pere ; et il-n'y-a point de sort que 

[Mr.] your father; and there-is-no — — destiny which 

le travail, la vigilance, 1' innocence et le 

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contentement de soi ne rendent supportable, 

contentment with oneself snot 1 may-3render supportable, 

quand on s' y soumet en vue de remplir son 

when one ^himself sto-it ^submits in view of discharging his 

devoir. 

duty. 

Voila, monsieur, des conseils qui valent 

These-are, sir, [of-ihe] counsels which are-worth 

tous ceux que vous pourriez venir pendre a 

all those that you would-be-able to-come to-take at 

Montmorency : peut-etre ne seront - ils pas de votre 

Montmorency: perhaps — ^will-^be *they 3not to your 

gout, et je crains que vous ne preniez pas le 

liking, and I am-afraid lest you — may-stake *not the 

parti de les suivre : mais je suis sur que vous 

resolution to athem * follows but I am sure that you 

vous en Tepentirez un jour. Je vous souhaite un 

^yourself 3of-it twill-repent one day. I ayou *wish a 

sort qui ne vous force jamais a vous en 

destiny which — *you *may«3force anever to sty.ours.elf sof-it 

souvenir. 

^remind. 



XLVIIL 

Songe de Marc-Aurele. 

Dream of Marcus Aurelius. 

Je voulus mediter sur la douleur; la nuit etait 

I wished to-meditate on [the] grief; the night was 

deja avancee ; le besoin du sommeil fatiguait ma 

already advanced; the want of-[the] sleep fatigued my 

paupiere ; je luttai quelque temps ; enfin je fus oblige 

eyelid; I struggled some time; at-last I was obliged 

de ceder, et je m'assoupis ; mais dans cet intervalle je 

to yield, and I fell-asleep; but in that interval f 

crus avoir un songe. II me sembla voir dans un 

fancied to-have a dream. It »to-me ^appeared to-see in a 



104 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

vaste portique une multitude d' hommes rassembles; 

vast portico a multitude of men assembled; 

ils avaient tous quelque chose d' auguste et de grand. 

they had all some thing of august and of grand. 

Q,uoique je n' eusse jamais vecu avec eux, leurs 

Although I — could-^have *never lived with them, their 

traits pourtant ne m' etaient pas etrangers ; je 

features nevertheless — «to-me iwere snot ^foreign ; I 

crus me rappeler que j' avais souvent contemple 

fancied ^to-myself Uo-recall that I had often beheld 

leurs statues dans Rome. Je les regardais tous, 

their statues in Rome. I *them iwas-looking-at all, 

quand une voix terrible et forte retentit sous le 

when a voice terrible and powerful resounded under the 

portique: "Mortels, apprenez a souffrir!" Au meme 

portico : Mortals, learn to suffer ! At-the same 

instant, devant 1' un, je vis s' allumer des 

instant, before [thej one, I saw athemselves 3 kindle [of-the] 

flammes, et il y posa la main. On apporta a un 

iflames, and he there laid his hand. They brought to an 

autre du poison ; il but et fit une libation aux 

other [of-the] poison ; he drank and made a libation to-the 

dieux. Un troisieme etait debout aupres d' une 

gods. A third was standing-up near — a 

statue de la liberte brisee ; il tenait d' une main 

^statue s f [the] "liberty ibroken ; he was-holding with one hand 

an livre, de 1' autre il prit une epee dont il 

a book, with the other he took a sword 3 f-which 4 he 

regardait la pointe. Plus-loin je distinguai un 

Hvas-looking-at Une spoint. Farther-off I distinguished a 

homme tout sanglant, mais calme et plus tranquille que 

man all bloody, but calm and more at-ease than 

ses bourreaux; je courus a lui en m'ecriant: "O 

his executioners; I ran to him while exclaiming: O 

Regulus ! est-ce toi ?" Je ne pus soutenir le spectacle 

Regulus! is it thou? I snot 1 could bear the spectacle 

de ses maux, et je detournai mes regards. Alors j' 

of his sufferings, and I turned-away my looks. Then I 

aper^us Fabricius dans la pauvrete, Scipion mourant 

perceived Fabricius in [the] poverty, Scipio dying 



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dans ]' exil, Epictete ecrivant dans les chames, 

in [the] exile, Epictetus writing in [the] chains, 

Seneque et Thraseas les veines ouvertes, et 

Seneca and Thraseas with [the] veins opened, and 

regardant d' un ceil tranquille leur sang couler. 

viewing with an s e ye ^undisturbed their blood flow. 

Environne de tous ces grands hommes malheureux, 

Surrounded with all these sgreat 3 men lunfortunate, 

je versais des larmes: ils parurent etonnes. L' 

I shed [of-the] tears: they appeared astonished. [The] 

un d' eux, ce fut Caton, approcha de moi, et me 

one of them, it was Cato, approached [of] me, and *to-me 

dit : " Ne nous plains pas, mais imite - nous, et toi 

^aid: — aus ipity not, but imitate us, and thou 

aussi apprends a vaincre la douleur !" Cependant 

likewise learn to subdue [the] grief! Mean-while 

il me parut pret a tourner contre lui le fer 

he ^to-me appeared ready to turn against himself the sword 

qu' il tenait a la main; je voulus 1' arreter, je 

which he held in his hand; I wished ^him Uo-stop, I 

fremis, et je m'eveillai. Je reflechis sur ce songe, 

shuddered, and I awoke. I reflected on this dream, 

et je con<jus que ces pretendus maux n' avaient pas 

and I conceived that these pretended evils — had not 

le droit d' ebranler mon courage ; je resolus d' etre 

the right to shake my courage; I resolved to be a 

homme, de souffrir, et de faire le bien. 

man, to suffer, and to do [the] good. 

THOMAS, 



XLIX. 

Jugements prononces en Egypte sur les Morts. 

Judgments pronounced in Egypt on the Dead. 

Il-y-avait un lac qu 9 il fallait traverser pour 

There-was a lake which it was-necessary to-cross in-order 

arriver au tieu de la sepulture : sur les bords de 

to-arrive at-the place of [the] sepulture: on the borders of 



106 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

ce lac on arretait le mort. " Q,ui-que tu 

that lake people stopped the dead man. Whoever thou 

sois, rends compte a la patrie de tes actions. 

mayest-be, render account to the country of thy actions. 

Q,u' as - tu fait du temps de la vie? La loi 

What hast thou done with-the time of [the] life? The law 

t' interroge, la patrie t' ecoute, la verite te 

athee ^questions, the country *thee Uistens-to, the truth ^thee 

juge." Alors il comparaissait sans titre *et sans 

fudges. Then he appeared without title and without 

pouvoir, reduit a lui seul, et escorte seulement de 

power, reduced to himself alone, and escorted only by 

ses vertus ou de ses vices. La, se devoilaient 

his virtues or by his vices. There, ^themselves 3 un veiled 

les. crimes secrets, et ceux que le credit ou la 

[the] ^crimes ^secret, and those which the influence or the 

puissance du mort avaient etouffes pendant sa vie. 

power of-the dead man had stifled during his life. 

La, celui dont on avait fletri 1' innocence 

There, he 3 f-whom 4 people shad narnished Uhe innocence 

venait a son tour fletrir le calomniateur, et redemander 

came in his turn to-disgrace the slanderer, and re-demand 

1' honneur qui lui avait ete enleve. Le citoyen, 

the honour which 4from-him ihad abeen naken. The citizen, 

convaincu de n' avoir point observe les lois, etait 

convicted of not having — observed the laws, was 

condamne ; la peine etait 1' infamie : mais le 

condemned; the punishment was [the] infamy: but the 

citoyen vertueux etait recompense d' un eloge public ; 

^citizen ^virtuous was recompensed by a Eulogy ^public; 

T honneur de le prononcer etait reserve aux parents. 

the honour of »it ^pronouncing was reserved to-the parents. 

On assemblait la famille, les enfants venaient 

People assembled the family, the children came 

recevoir des lemons de vertu en entendant louer a J 

to-receive [of-the] lessons of virtue in hearing apraised 

leur pere. Le peuple s' y rendait en foule ; le 

ttheir ^father. The people ^there ^repaired in crowd; the 

magistral y presidait. Alors on celebrait V 
magistrate 2 there ^presided. Then people commended the 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 107 



homme juste a 1' aspect de sa cendre ; on rappelait 

»man ^upright at the sight of his ashes; they recalled 

les lieux, les moments et les jours ou il avait fait 

the places, the moments and the days in-which he had performed 

des actions vertueuses ; on le remerciait de-ce-qu' 

[of-the] ^actions ^virtuous ; they shim Uhanked because 

il avait servi sa patrie et les hommes ; on proposait 

he had served his country and [the] men ; people proposed 

son exemple a ceux qui avaient encore a vivre et a 

his example to those who had yet to live and to 

mourir. L' orateur fmissait par invoquer sur lui le 

die. The speaker finished by invoking on him the 

dieu redoutable des morts, et par le confier, pour 

2god iformidable of-tbe dead, and by shim ^committing, *to 

ainsi dire, a la divinite, en la suppliant de ne-pas P 

iso say, to the divinity, in sher ^beseeching Ho inot 4 him 

abandonner dans ce monde obscur et inconnu ou 

sabandon in that ^world idark ^and sunknown where 

il venait-d'entrer. Enfin, en le quittant, et le 

he had-just-entered. At-last, m ahim ^quitting, and 2him 

quittant pour jamais, on lui disait, pour soi et 

^quitting for ever, one ^to-him »said, for oneself and 

pour le peuple, le long et eternel adieu. Tout cela 

for the people, the long and eternal farewell. All this 

ensemble, surtout chez une nation austere et grave, 

together, especially with an nation ^austere *and 3 grave, 

devait affecter profondement, inspirer des idees 

must affect deeply, inspire [of-the] aideas 

augustes de religion et de morale. 

^august of religion and of morality. 

On ne peut douter que ces eloges, avant qu' ils 

One 3not ican doubt that these praises, before that they 

fussent prodigues et corrompus, ne ak fissent une forte 

were lavished and corrupted, — made a strong 

impression sur les ames. Leur institution ressemblait 

impression on the minds. Their institution Resembled 

beaucoup a celle de nos oraisons funebres; mais il-y-a 

imuch [to] that of our Orations ifuneral ; but there-is 

une difference remarquable, c' est qu' ils etaient 

a difference ^remarkable, it is that they were 



108 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

accordes a la vertu, non a la dignite. Le laboureur 

granted to [the] virtue, not to [the] rank. The labourer 

et V artisan y avaient droit comme le 

and the mechanic *to-them *had *a aright as-well-as the 

souverain. Ce n' etait point alors une ceremonie 

sovereign. It — was not then a ^ceremony 

vaine, ou un orateur, que personne ne croyait, 

ivain, where an orator, whom no-one — believed, 

venait parler de vertus qu' il ne croyait pas davantage, 

came to-speak of virtues which he — believed not more, 

tachait de se passionner un instant pour ce-qui etait 

endeavoured to himself ^impassion a moment for what was 

quelquefois P objet du mepris public et du-sien; 

sometimes the object of-the ^contempt ^public and of-his; 

et, entassant avec harmonie des mensonges 

and, accumulating with harmony [of-the] 3 lies 

mercenaries, flattait longuement les morts, pour etre 

^mercenary, flattered a-great- while the dead, in-order to-be 

lone lui-meme, ou recompense par les vivants. Alors 

praised himself, or recompensed by the living. Then 

on ne louait pas 1' humanite d' un general qui avait 

they — praised not the humanity of a general who had 

ete cruel ; le desinteressement d' un magistrat qui 

been cruel; the disinterestedness of a magistrate who 

avait vendu les bis ; tout etait simple et vrai. Les 

had sold the laws; all was simple and true. [The] 

princes eux-memes etaient soumis au jugement, 

princes themselves were subjected to-the judgment 

comme le reste des hommes, et ils n' etaient loues 

as-well-as the rest of-[the] men, and they — were praised 

que lorsqu' ils 1' avaient merite. II est juste que la 

only when they sit *had ^deserved. It is right that the 

tombe soit une barriere entre la flatterie et le 

tomb should-be a barrier between [the] flattery and the 

prince, et que la verite commence ou le pouvoir 

prince, and that [the] truth should-begin where [the] power 

cesse. Nous savons par 1' histoire que plusieurs 

ceases. We know by [the] history that several 

des rois d' Egypte qui avaient foule leurs peuples 

of-the kings of Egypt who had oppressed their people 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 109 



pour elever ces pyramides immenses furent fletris 

in-order to-raise those ^pyramids ^immense were disgraced 

par la loi, et prives des tombeaux qu' ils s'etaient 

by the law, and deprived of-the tombs which they had 

eux-memes constructs. 

sfor nhemselves * built. 

Depuis trois mille ans ces usages ne subsistent 

Since three thousand years these customs a n o ^subsist 

plus, et on ne voit dans aucun pays du monde 

more, and we 3 not isee in any country of-the world 

des magistrats etablis pour juger la memoire des 

[of-the] magistrates appointed to judge the memory of-the 

rois ; mais la renommee fait la fonction de ce 

kings; but [the] fame performs the office of that 

tribunal: plus terrible, parce-qu' on ne peut la 

tribunal: more terrible, because people snot ican *her 

corrompre, elle dicte les arrets, la posterite les 

'bribe, she dictates the sentences, [the] posterity athem 

ecoute, et P histoire les ecrit. 

tlistens-to, and [the] history ^them *writeSi THOMAS. 



L. 



Origine et Mobiles de V Industrie Humaine. 

Origin and Springs of [the] ^industry iHuman. 

Toute activite, soit de corps, soit d' esprit, prend 

All activity, whether of body, whether of mind, takes 

sa source dans les besoins ; c' est en raison de leur 

its source in the necessities ; it is in the ratio of their 

etendue, de leurs developpements, qu' elle-meme s' 

extent, of their developments, that it [self] itself 

etend et se developpe ; on en suit la gradation 

textends and itself *developes; we 4 of-it tfollow ^the sg ra dation 

depuis les elements les-plus simples, jusqu' a 1' etat 

from athe ^elements most simple, even to the 'state 

le-plus compose. C est la faim, c' est la soif. 

*most ^complicated. It is [the] hunger, it is [the] thirst, 



110 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

qui, dans 1' homme encore sauvage, eveillent les 

which, in [the] man yet savage, awaken the 

premiers mouvements de 1' ame et du corps; ce 

first impulses of the soul and of-the body ; these 

sont les besoins qui le font courir, chercher, 

are the wants which shim icause to-run, to-seek, 

epier, user d' astuce ou de violence; toute son 

to-spy, to-make-use of cunning or of violence; all his 

activite se mesure sur les moyens de pourvoir a sa 

activity itself ^measures on the means of providing for his 

subsistance. Sont - ils faciles, a - 1 - il sous sa main 

subsistence. Are they easy, has — he under his hand 

les fruits, le gibier, le poisson, il est moins actif, 

[the] fruits, [the] game, [the] fish, he is less active, 

parce-qu' en etendant le bras il se rassasie, et 

because in stretching his arm he ^himself ^satisfies, and 

que, rassasie, rien ne 1' invite a se mouvoir, 

that, satisfied, nothing — shim invites to ^himself »move, 

jusqu'a-ce-que 1' experience de diverses jouissances 

until the experience of various enjoyments 

ait eveille en lui des desirs qui deviennent 

may-have awakened in him [of-the] desires which become 

des besoins nouveaux, de nouveaux mobiles d' 

[of-the] ^wants Miew, [of] new springs of 

activite. Les moyens sont -ils difficiles, le gibier 

activity. ^The smeans *are — difficult, *the sgame 

est-il rare et agile, le poisson ruse, les fruits 

lis — scarce and agile, the fish cunning, the fruits 

passagers, alors 1' homme est force d' etre plus actif; 

transitory, then [the] man is forced to be more active; 

il-faut que son corps et son esprit s' exercent 

it-is-necessary that his body and his mind themselves ^exert 

a vaincre Jes difficultes qu' il rencontre pour vivre ; 

to overcome the difficulties which he encounters in-order to-live; 

il-faut qu' il devienne agile comme le gibier, 

it-is-necessary that he become agile like the game, 

ruse comme le poisson, et prevoyant pour conserver 

cunning like the fish, and provident in-order to-preserve 

les fruits. Alors, pour etendre ses facultes naturelles, 

the fruits. Then, in-order to-extend his ^faculties ^natural, 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. Ill 



il s' agite, i] pense, il medite ; alors il imagine 

he ^himself lexerts, he thinks, he meditates; then he contrives 

de courber un rameau d' arbre pour en faire un 

to bend a branch of a tree in-order «with-it no-make *a 

arc, d' aiguiser un roseau pour en faire une 

3bovv, to sharpen a reed in-order 4 wilh-it Uo-make ^an 

fleche, d' emmancher un baton a une pierre tranchante 

aarrovv, to set-as-a-handle a stick to a a s tone 'sharp 

pour en faire une hache ; alors il travaille a 

in-order *with-it no-make ^ a shatchet; then he works to 

faire des filets, a abattre des arbres, a en creuser 

make [of-the] nets, to fell [of-the] trees, to 4of-them 'hollow 

les troncs pour en faire des pirogues. Deja 

a the nrunks in-order sof-them no-make [of-the] 2canoes. Already 

il a franchi les bornes des besoins ; deja 1' 

he has leaped-over the bounds of-the wants; already the 

experience d' une foule de sensations lui a fait 

experience of a throng of sensations shim 'has ^caused 

connaitre des jouissances et des peines ; et il 

to-know [of-the] enjoyments and [of-the] troubles ; and he 

prend un surcroit d' activite pour ecarter les unes 

undertakes an increase of activity in-order to-remove the ones 

et multiplier les autres. II a goute le plaisir d' 

and to-multiply the others. He has tasted the pleasure of 

un ombrage contre les feux du soleil ; il se fait 

a shade against the. fires of-the sun ; he ^himself 1 makes 

une cabane. II a eprouve qu' une peau le garantit 

a hut. He has experienced that a skin ^him 'keeps 

du froid ; il se fait un vetement. II a 

from-the cold; he ^himself 'makes a garment. He has 

goute le vin et fume le tabac ; il les a 

tasted [the] wine and smoked [the] tobacco; he nhem lnas 

aimes ; il veut en avoir encore : il ne le peut 

aliked ; he wishes *some no-have again : he — ait 'can-do 

qu' avec des peaux de castor, des dents d' elephant, 

only with [of-the] ^skins — 1 beaver, [of-the] stusks — lelephant, 

de la poudre d' or, &c. ; il redouble d' activite, 

[of] [the] apowder — 'gold, &o. ; he redoubles [of] activity, 



112 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

et il parvient, a-force d' industrie, jusqu' a vendre 

and he attains, by-dint of industry, so-far-as to sell 

son semblable. 

his fellow-man. VOLNEY. 



LI. 



Moyen de connaitre les Grands Effets des 

Means to know the Great Effects of-the 

Varietes de la Nature. 

Varieties of [the] Nature. 

Ce n' est point en se-promenant dans nos campagnes 

It — is not in walking in our ^plains 

cultivees, ni meme en parcourant toutes les terres 

^cultivated, nor even in surveying all the lands 

du domaine de 1' homme, que 1' on peut connaitre 

of-the domain of [the] man, that — one can know 

les grands effets des varietes de la nature : ^ est en 

the great effects of-the varieties of [the] nature: it is in 

se transportant des sables brulants de la zone 

^oneself ^transporting from-the ^sands ^burning of the ^zone 

torride aux glacieres des poles ; c' est en descendant 

Horrid to-the glaciers of-the poles; it is in descending 

du sommet des montagnes au fond des mers ; 

from-the summit of-[the] mountains to-the bottom of-[the] seas; 

c' est en comparant les deserts avec les deserts que 

it is in comparing [the] deserts with [the] deserts that 

nous la jugerons mieux, et 1' admirerons davantage. 

we sher ishall-define better, and aher ishall-adrnire more. 

En-effet, sous le point de vue de ses sublimes 

Indeed, under the point of view of her sublime 

contrastes, et de ses majestueuses oppositions, elle parait 

contrasts, and of her majestic oppositions, she appears 

plus grande en se montrant telle qu' elle est. Nous 

more grand in ^herself ^showing such as she is. We 

avons ci-devant peint les deserts arides de 1' Arabie 

have heretofore depicted the ^deserts ^barren of [the] Arabia 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 113 



Petree ; ces solitudes mies ou P homme n' a 

Petrea ; those Solitudes inaked where [the] man — has 

jamais respire sous 1' ombrage, ou la terre, sans 

never breathed under the shade, where the earth, without 

verdure, n' offre aucune subsistance aux animaux, 

verdure, *not ^offers any subsistence to-the animals, 

aux oiseaux, aux insectes ; ou tout parait mort. 

to-the birds, to-the insects; where everything seems dead, 

parce-que rien ue peut naitre, et que 1' element 

because nothing — can grow, and because the element 

necessaire au developpement des germes de tout etre 

necessary for-the development of-the germs of every being 

vivant ou vegetant, loin d' arroser la terre par des 

living or vegetating, far from watering the land by [of-the] 

ruisseaux d' eau vive, ou de la penetrer par 

rivulets of *water living, or from ajt ^penetrating by 

des pluies fecondantes, ne peut merae 1' humecter 

[of-the] drains ^fertilizing, s n ot *can even ^\t ^moisten 

d' une simple rosee. 

with a simple dew. 

Opposons ce tableau d' une secheresse absoluc 

Let-us-oppose this picture of an brought ^absolute 

dans une terre trop ancienne, a celui des vastes plaines 

in a land too ancient, to that of-the vast plains 

de fange, des savanes noyees du nouveau continent ; 

of mire, of the Savannahs ^drowned of-the new continent; 

nous y verrons par exces ce que 1' autre iv 

we there shall-see in excess that which the other — 

offre que par defaut. Des fieuves d' une largeur 

presents only by default. [Of-the] rivers of an ^breadth 

immense, tels que 1' Amazone, la Plata, 1' Orenoque, 

^immense, such as the Amazon, the Plata, the Orinoco, 

roulant a grand bruit leurs vagues ecumantes, et 

rolling with great roaring their swaves »foaming, ami 

se-debordant en toute liberte, semblent menacer la 

overflowing in entire liberty, seem to-threaten the 

terre d' un envahissement, et faire des efforts 

earth with an invasion, and to-make [of-the] efforts 

pour 1' occuper tout-entiere. Des eaux, stagnantes 1 

in-order ait Uo-occupy entirely. [Of-the] waters, stagnant 

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114 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



et repandues pres et loin de leur cours, couvrent le 

and diffused near and far from their course, cover the 

limon vaseux qu' elles ont depose ; et ces vastes 

2 ooze »muddy which they have deposited; and those vast 

marecages, exhalant leurs vapeurs en brouillards fetides, 

marshes, exhaling their vapours in sfogs ifetid, 

communiqueraient a 1' air 1' infection de la terre, 

would-communicate to the air the infection of the earth, 

si bientot elles ne retombaient en pluies precipitees 

if 4 S oon uhey snot 2did-sfall in rains precipitated 

par les orages, ou dispersees par les vents. Et ces 

by [the] storms, or dissipated by [the] winds. And those 

plages, alternativement seches et noyees, ou la 

fiat-shores, alternately dry and deluged, where the 

terre et 1' eau semblent se-disputer des possessions 

land and the water seem to-contend-for [of-the] ^possessions 

illimitees, et ces broussailles de mangles, jetees sur 

^boundless, and those brambles of mangrove-trees, thrown over 

les confins indecis de ces deux elements, ne sont 

the ^confines ^undetermined of these two elements, — are 

peuplees que d' animaux immondes qui pullulent 

peopled only with Animals ifllthy which multiply 

dans ces repaires, cloaques de la nature, ou 

in those haunts, sinks of [the] nature, where 

tout retrace 1' image des dejections monstrueuses 

every-thing retraces the image of-the Rejections ^monstrous 

de 1' antique limon. 

of the ancient slime. 

Les enormes serpents tracent de larges sillons 

[The] enormous serpents trace [of] wide furrows 

sur cette terre bourbeuse, les crocodiles, les crapauds, 

on that ^land 1 miry, [the] crocodiles, [the] toads, 

les lezards, et mille autres reptiles a larges pattes, 

[the] lizards, and a thousand other reptiles with large paws, 

en petrissent la fange ; des millions d' insectes 

«of-it *knead nhe sfilth; [of-the] millions of insects 

enfles par la chaleur humide en soulevent la vase, 

swelled by the aheat imoist c f-it aheave-up 4 the «ooze, 

et tout ce peuple impur rampant sur le limon ou 

and all that *race »impure creeping over the slime or 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 115 



bourdonnant dans V air qu' il obscurcit, toute cette 

buzzing in the air which it darkens, all that 

vermine dont fourmille la terre, attirent de 

vermin with-which aswarms Uhe aland, attract [of j 

nombreuses cohortes d' oiseaux ravisseurs dont ]es 

numerous companies of ^birds ^ravishing sof-which stbe 

cris, confondus, multiplies, et meles aux coassements 

*cries, confounded, multiplied, and mingled with-the croakings 

des reptiles, en troublant le silence de ces affreux 

of-the reptiles, in disturbing the silence of those frightful 

deserts, semblent aj outer la crainte a 1' horreur, 

deserts, seem to-add [the] fear to [the] horror, 

pour en ecarter 1' homme et en interdire 

in-order afrom-them Uo-turn [the] 2 m an and 4 of-them Uo-prohibit 

1' entree aux autres etres sensibles; terres d'ailleurs 

nhe aentrance to-[the] other beings ^sensible ; lands moreover 

impraticables, encore sauvages, et qui ne serviraient 

impassable, still wild, and which — would-serve 

qu ? a lui rappeler Y idee de ces temps voisins 

only to ^to-him ^recall the idea of those times nigh 

du premier chaos, oii les elements n' etaient pas 

[of]-the first chaos, when the elements — were not 

separes, et ou. la terre et 1' eau ne faisaient 

separated, and when the land and the water — formed 

encore qu' une masse informe et grossiere, 

as-yet but a mass shapeless and coarse. 



BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. 



116 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



lii. 

Le Spectacle d' une Belle Nuit dans les 

The Spectacle of a Beautiful Night in the 

Deserts du Nouveau-Monde. 

Wilds of-the New World. 

Une heure apres le coucher du soleil, la lune 

An hour after the setting of-the sun, the moon 

se montra au-dessus des arbres ; a V horizon 

^herself 'showed above [of ]-the trees ; at the horizon 

oppose, une brise embaumee qu' elle amenait de 1' 

'-opposite, a freeze 'balmy which she brought from the 

orient avec elle, semblait la preceder, comme sa 

east with her, seemed «her no-precede, like her 

fraiche haleine, dans les forets. La reine des nuits 

cool breath, in the forests. The queen of-the nights 

monta peu a peu dans le ciel : tantot elle suivait 

arose little by little into the sky : sometimes she pursued 

paisib lenient sa course azuree, tantot elle reposait sur 

peaceably her bourse 'azure, sometimes she reposed on 

des groupes de nues, qui ressemblaient a la cime 

[of-the] groups of clouds, which bore-resemblance to the summit 

des hautes montagnes couronnees de neige. Ces 

of-[the] high mountains crowned with snow. Those 

nues, ployant et deployant leurs voiles, se 

clouds, folding and unfolding their veils, themselves 

deroulaient en zones diaphanes de satin blanc, se 

'unrolled in «zones 'transparent of osatin l white, ^themselves 

dispersaient en legers flocons d' ecume, ou formaient 

'dispersed in light flakes of foam, or formed 

dans les cieux des bancs d' une ouate eblouissante, si 

in the skies [of-the] banks of a adown 'dazzling, so 

doux a P ceil, qu' on croyait ressentir leur mollesse 

soft to the eye, that one thought to-feel their softness 

et leur elasticite. 

and their elasticity. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 117 

La scene, sur la terre, n' etait pas moins 

The scene, on the earth, — was not less 

ravissante ; le jour bleuatre et veloute de la lune 

charming; the *light ^bluish ^and syelvet of the moon 

descendait dans les intervalles des arbres, et poussait 

descended in the intervals of-the trees, and threw 

des gerbes de lumiere j usque dans 1' epaisseur des 

[of-the] sheaves of light even into the thickness of-the 

plus profondes tenebres. La riviere qui couiait a mes 

most profound shades. The river which ran at my 

pieds, tour-a-tour se perdait dans les bois, tour-a-tour 

feet, by-turns aitself ilost in the woods, by -turns 

reparaissait toute brillante des constellations de la 

re-appeared all sparking with-the constellations of the 

nuit, qu' elle repetait dans son sein. Dans une vaste 

night, which it repeated in its bosom. In a vast 

prairie, de 1' autre cote de cette riviere, la clarte de 

prairie, on the other side of that river, the light of 

la lune dormait sans mouvement sur les gazons. 

the moon slumbered without motion on the turfs. 

Des bouleaux, agites par les brises, et disperses 

[Of-the] birch-trees, agitated by the breezes, and scattered 

t«a et la dans la savane, formaient des iles d' 

here and there in the savannah, formed [of-the] isles of 

ombres flottantes, sur une mer immobile de lumiere. 

shadows floating over a «sea ^motionless of light. 

Aupres, tout etait silence et repos, hors la chute de 

Close-by, all was silence and repose, except the fail of 

quelques feuilles, le passage brusque d' un vent subit, 

some leaves, the ^passage x rough of a awind 'sudden, 

les gemissements rares et interrompus de la hulotte; 

the *wailings 'unfrequent ^and sjnterrupted of the grey-owl ; 

mais au-loin, par intervalles, on entendait les roulements 

but afar-off, by intervals, one heard the ^rollings 

solennels de la cataracte de Niagara, qui, dans le 

lawful of the cataract of Niagara, which, in the 

calme de la nuit, se prolongeaient de desert 

stillness of the night, ^themselves ^prolonged from desert 

en desert, et expiraient a-travers les forets solitaires. 

to desert, and expired through the ^forests isolitary. 



118 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 



La grandeur, 1' etonnante melancolie d'e ce 

The grandeur, the astonishing melancholy of thai 

tableau, ne sauraient s'exprimer dans des langue^ 

picture, ^not *could be-expressed in [of-thej language 

humaines ; les plus belles nuits en Europe ne peuvent 

ihuman ; the most beautiful nights in Europe *not Lcan 

en donner une idee. En vain, dans nos champs 

♦of-it igive *an »idea. In vain, in our ^fields 

cultives, 1' imagination cherche a s' etendre ; elle 

^cultivated, the imagination seeks to itself ^extend ; it 

rencontre de toutes parts les habitations des homrnes ; 

encounters on all sides the dwellings of-[the} men; 

mais, dans ces pays deserts, P ame se-plait 

but, in those ^countries *wild, the soul delights 

a s' enfoncer dans un ocean de forets, a errer 

to sjtself plunge into an ocean of forests, to wander 

aux bords des lacs immenses, a planer sur le 

on -the borders of-the ^akes ^immense, to hover over tto' 

gouffre des cataractes, et, pour ainsi dire, a se 

abyss of-the cataracts, and, Ho »so say, to ^itself 

trouver seule devant Dieu, 

ifind alone before God. CHATEAUBRIAND. 



LIII. 

Priere du Soir a Bord d** tin Vaisseau. 

Prayer of-[the] Evening on Board of a Ship. 

Le globe du soleil, dont nos yeux pouvaient alors 

The orb of-the sun, of-which our eyes were-able then 

soutenir 1' eclat, pret a se plonger dans les 

to-support the brightness, ready to itself iplunge into the 

vagues etincelantes, apparaissait entre les cordages du 

*waves ^sparkling, appeared among the ropes of-the 

vaisseau, et versait encore le jour dans des espaces 

ship, and ^poured *still the light into [of-the] spaces 

sans bornes. On eut dit, par le balancement 

without limits. One would-have said, by the swinging 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 119 



de la poupe, que V astre radieux changeait a chaque 

of the stern, that the ^planet *radiant was-cbanging ^ a t a e very 

instant d' horizon. Les mats, les haubans, les vergues 

«instattt [of] ^horizon. The masts, the shrouds, the yards 

du navire etaient cou verts d' une teinte de rose. 

of-the ship were covered with a *tint £of] *rose. 

Quelques images erraient sans ordre dans 1' 

Some clouds were-wandering without order in the 

orient, ou la lune rnontait avec lenteur. Le reste 

east, where the moon was-ascending with slowness. The rest 

du ciel etait. puT; et, a 1' horizon du nord, 

of-the sky was clear; and, at. the horizon of-the north, 

form ant un glorieux triangle avec Y astre du jour et 

forming « glorious triangle with the planet of-the day and 

celui de la miit, une trombe chargee des couleurs 

that of the night, a water-spout charged with-the colours 

du prisme s' elevait de la rner comme une 

of-the prism ^itself «was-raising from the sea like a 

colonne de crystal supportant la voiite du ciel. 

column of crystal supporting the vauit of-the sky. 

II eut ete bien a plaindre celui qui, dans 

He would-have been much to be-pitied, he who, in 

ce beau spectacle, n' eut pas reconnu la 

that beautiful spectacle, — could-^have *not recognised the 

beaute de Dieu ! Des iarmes coulerent malgre moi 

sublimity of Godl [Gf-the] tears trickled in-spite-of me 

de mes paupieres lorsque tous mes compagnons, 

from my eyelids when all my companions, 

otant leurs chapeaux goudronnes, vinrent n entonner, 

taking-off their shats Uarred, began to sing, 

d' une voix rauque, leur simple cantique a 

with a ^voice *hoarse, their simple song to 

Notre Dame-de-Bon-Secours, patronne des mariniers. 

Our Lady of Good Assistance, patroness of-[the] manners. 

Q.u' elle etait touchante la priere de ces hommes, 

How ait 3was ^touching the prayer of those men, 

qui, sur une planche fragile, au milieu de P ocean, 

who, on a spi ar ,k i frail, in-the midst of the ocean, 

contemplaient un soleil couchant sur les nots ! Comme 

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120 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

elle allait a 1' ame cette invocation du pauvre 

it went to the soul that invocation of-the poor 

matelot a la mere de douleurs ! Cette humiliation 

sailor to the mother of sorrows! That humiliation 

devant celui qui envoie les orages et le calme; cette 

before him who sends the storms and the calm; that 

conscience de notre petitesse a la vue de P 

consciousness of our littleness at the sight of the 

Infini ; ces chants s'etendant au-loin sur les vagues : 

Infinite; those strains extending afar over the waves; 

les monstres marins, etonnes de ces accents inconnus, 

the ^monsters "marine, astonished at those atones "unknown, 

se precipitant au fond de leurs gouffres; la 

^themselves "precipitating to-the bottom of their abysses ; the 

nuit s'approchant avec ses embuches; la merveille de 

night approaching with its ambushes; the wonder of 

notre vaisseau au milieu de tant de merveilles; un 

our ship in-the midst of so-many — wonders; a 

equipage religieux, saisi d' admiration et de crainte ; 

^crew "pious, seized with admiration and with awe; 

un pretre auguste en priere ; Dieu penche sur 1* 

an Spriest "august in prayer; God bent over the 

abirne, d' une main retenant le soleil aux portes de 

abyss, with one hand staying the sun at-the gates of 

F Occident, de 1' autre elevant la lune a 1' horizon 

the west, with the other raising the moon to the ^horizon 

oppose, et pretant, a-travers 1' immensite, une oreille 

"opposite, and lending, through the immensity, an *ear 

attentive a la faible voix de sa creature: voila ce-que 

"attentive to the feeble voice of his creature: this-is what 

V on ne saurait peindre et ce-que tout le coeur de 

— one *not *can portray and what all the heart of 

T homme suffit a-peine pour sentir. 

[the] man suffices hardly to feel. 

CHATEAUBRIANR 



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LIV. 

Le Volcan de Quito. 

The Volcano of Quito. 

Heureux les peuples qui cultivent les vallees et les 

Happy the people who cultivate the vales and the 

collines que la mer forma dans son sein des sables 

hills which the sea formed in its bosom with-ihe sands 

que roulent ses flots, des depouilles de la terre ! 

that sroll-up uts ^waves, with-the spoils of the earth? 

Le pasteur y conduit ses troupeaux sans alarmes; 

The shepherd thither leads his flocks without fears ; 

le laboureur y seme et y moissonne en paix, 

the husbandman there sows and there reaps in peace. 

Mais malheur aux peuples voisins de ces montagnes 

But woe to-the people near [of] those ^mountains 

sourcilleuses, dont le pied n' a jamais trempe dans 

'lofty, of-which the foot — has never dipped into 

T ocean, et dont la cime s' eleve au-dessus 

the ocean, and of-which the summit sitself *raises above 

des nuesl Ce sont des soupiraux que le feu 

£of]-the clouds! These are [of-the] air-holes which the sfire 

souterrain s' est ouverts, en brisant la voute des 

^subterranean has opened, in breaking the vault of-the 

fournaises profondes oii sans cesse il bouillonne. 

skilns 'deep where without ceasing it bubbles-up. 

II a forme ces monts des rochers calcines, des 

It has formed those mountains of-the Crocks ^calcined, of-the 

metaux brulants et liquides, des flots de cendre et 

<metals i burning aand liquid, of-the streams of ashes and 

de bitume qu' il lancait, et qui, dans leur chute, 

of bitumen . which it threw-up, and which, in their fall, 

s'accumulaient au bord de ces gouffres ouverts! 

accumulated at-the margin of those 2 gu if s lopen ! 

Malheur aux peuples que la fertilite de ce terrain 

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122 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

perfide attache ! Les fleurs, les fruits et les moissons 

iperficlious engages! [The] flowers, [the] fruits and [the] harvests 

couvrent V abime sous leurs pas. Ces germes de 

cover the abyss under their steps. These germs of 

fecondite, dont la terre est penetree, sont les 

fertility, with- which the land is penetrated, are the 

exhalaisons du feu qui la devore. Sa richesse, en 

exhalations of-the fire which ait ^devours. Its richness, in 

croissant, presage sa mine ; et c' est au sein de V 

augmenting, presages its ruin ; and it is in-the midst of [the] 

abondance qu' on la voit engloutir ses heureux 

abundance that one 2 it ^ees swallow-up its happy 

possesseurs: tel est le climat de Quito. La ville est 

possessors: such is the climate of Quito, The city is 

dominee par un volcan terrible, qui, par de frequentes 

commanded by a ^volcano 'dreadful, which, by [of] frequent 

■ 

secousses, en ebranle les fondements. 

concussions, «of-it 'shakes ^the ^foundations. 

Un jour que le peuple Indien, repandu dans les 

One day when the ^people 'Indian, spread in the 1 

campagnes, labourait, semait, moissonnait (car 

country, were-ploughing, were-sowing, were-reaping (for 

ce riche vallon presente tous ces travaux a-la-fois) 9 

that rich vale presents all these labours at-once), 

et que les filles du soleil, dans 1' interieur de 

and when the daughters of-the sun, in the interior of 

leur palais, etaient occupees, les-unes a filer, les 

their palace, were occupied, some in spinning, [the] 

autres a ourdir les precieux tissus de laine dont 

others in warping the precious tissues of wool with-which 

le pontife et le roi sont vetus, un bruit sourd se 

the pontiff and the king are clothed, a *noise 'hollow ^itself 

fait d'abord entendre aj dans les entrailles du volcan. 

'makes at-first heard in the bowels of-the volcano. 

Ce bruit, semblable a celui de la mer lorsqu' elle , 

That noise, similar to that of the sea when it 

concoit les tempetes, s'accroit et se-change bientot en 

generates the storms, increases and changes soon into 

un rnugissement profond. La terre tremble, le ciel 

a ^bellowing 'deep. The earth trembles, the sky 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 123 

gronde, de noires vapeurs 1' enveloppent, le temple 

roars, [of] black vapours ait ^envelope, the temple 

et les palais chancellent, et menacent de s'ecrouler; 

and the palaces totter, and threaten to tumble-down; 

la montagne s'ebranle, et sa cime entr'ouverte vomit, 

the mountain shakes, and its ^summit ^half-opened emits, 

avec les vents enfermes dans son sein, des flots 

with the winds shut-up in its bosom, [of-the] streams 

de bitume liquide et des tourbillons de fumee qui 

of ^bitumen ^liquid and [of-the] whirlwinds of smoke which 

rougissent, s'enflamment et lancent dans les airs des 

redden, inflame and hurl into the air [of-thej 

eclats de rochers brulants qu' ils ont detaches de 

pieces of Crocks ^burning which they have separated from 

V abime: superbe et terrible spectacle, de voir des 

the abyss: superb and awful spectacle, to see [of-the] 

rivieres de feu bondir a flots etincelants a-travers 

rivers of fire bound in *waves ^sparkling through 

des monceaux de neige, et s' y creuser un lit 

[of-the] masses of snow, and there hollow-out a *bed 

vaste et profond! 

ivast *and adeep ! 

Dans les murs, hors des murs, la desolation, 

In the walls, out of-the walls, [the] desolation, 

1' epouvante, le vertige de la terreur se 

[the] dismay, the dizziness of [the] terror ^themselves 

repandent en un instant. Le laboureur regarde et 

^spread in an instant. The husbandman gazes and 

reste immobile. II n' ose al entamer la terre qu' 

stands motionless. He *not *dares open the ground which 

il sent comme une mer flottant sous ses pas. Parmi 

he feels like a ^sea ^floating under his steps. Among 

les pretres du soleil, les-uns, tremblants, s'elancent 

the priests of-the sun, some, trembling, rush 

hors du temple ; les autres, consternes, embrassent 

out of-the temple; [the] others, dismayed, embrace 

V autel de leur dieu. Les vierges eperdues sortent 

the altar of their god. The avirgins Uerrified come-out 

de leur palais, dont les toits menacent de fondre sur 

of their palace, sof-which nhe Proofs threaten to fall upon 



124 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

leur tete; et, courant dans leur vaste enclos, pales, 

their head; and, running within their vast enclosure, pale, 

echevelees, elles tendent leurs mains timides vers 

dishevelled, they stretch-out their ahands Uimid • towards 

ces murs, d' ou la pitie meme n' ose 

those walls, [from] where [the] pity itself a n ot *dares 

approcher pour les secourir. 

approach in-order athem Uo-succour. MARMONTEL. 



LV. 

Faiblesse du Pouvoir de V Homme contre 

Weakness of-the Power of [the] Man against 

celui de la Nature. 

that of [the] Nature. 

Nous ne voyons 1' ordre que dans les lieux ou nous 

We a not *see [the] order but in the places where we 

avons mis la main. L' habitude que nous avons 

have placed our hand. The habit which we have 

de resserrer dans des digues le canal de nos 

of contracting within [of-the] dikes the channel of out 

rivieres, de sabler nos grands chemins, d' aligner les 

rivers, of gravelling our great roads, of laying-out the 

allees de nos jardins, d' en tracer les bassin?> 

walks of our gardens, of 4 f-them ^drawing athe abasina 

au cordeau, d' equarrir nos parterres et meme 

to-the line, of squaring our flower-gardens and even 

nos arbres, nous accoutume a considerer tout ce qui 

our trees, *us ^accustoms to consider all that which 

s'ecarte de notre equerre, comme livre a la 

deviates from our rule, as given-up to [the] 

confusion. Mais c' est dans ces lieux-memes que 

confusion. But it is in those ^places ivery that 

1' on voit sou vent un veritable desordre. Nous faisons 

— we 2 S ee loften a real disorder. We cause 

jaillir des jets d' eau sur des montagnes; nous 

«to-rise [of-the] \jets «of swater upon [of-the] mountains; we 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 125 

plantons des peupliers et des tilleuls sur des 

plant [of-the] poplars and [of- the] lime-trees on [of-the] 

rochers ; nous mettons des vignobles dans des vallees, 

rocks; we place [of-the] vineyards in [of-the] valleys, 

et des prairies sur des collines. Pour-peu-que* 

and [of-the] meadows on [of-the] hills. If-ever-so-little 

ces travaux soient negliges, tous ees petits nivellements 

those works be neglected, all those little levellings 

sont bientot confondus sous le niveau general des 

are soon confounded under the alevel igenerai of-[the] 

continents, et toutes ces cultures humaines disparaissent 

continents, and all those atillings ihuman disappear 

sous celle de la nature. Les pieces d' eau se-changent 

under that of [the] nature. The sheets of water change 

en marais, les murs de charmilles se-herissent d' 

into marshes, the walls of yoke-elm-trees bristle-up with 

herbes, tous les berceaux s' obstruent, toutes les 

weeds, all the arbours ^each-other ^obstruct, all the 

avenues se ferment, les vegetaux naturels a 

avenues ^themselves *close, the plants natural to 

chaque sol font la guerre aux vegetaux etrangers; 

each soil make [the] war on-the ^plants ^foreign; 

les chardons etoiles et les vigoureux verbascums 

the ^thistles istar and the vigorous verbascums 

etouffent sous leurs larges feuilles les gazons anglais; 

choke-up under their wide leaves the agrass-plots lEnglish; 

des foules epaisses de graminees et de trefles 

[of-the] ^clusters *thick of quick-grass and of clover 

se reunissent autour des arbres de Judee ; les 

^themselves icollect around [of]-the trees of Judea ; the 

ronces du chien y grimpent avec leurs crochets, 

briars of-the dog a n-them icreep with their hooks, 

comme si elles y montaient a 1' assaut; des 

as if they a n-them iwere-mounting to the assault; [of-the] 

touffes d' orties s'emparent de 1' urne des Naiades, 

tufts of nettles take-possession of the urn of-the Naiads, 

et des forets de roseaux, des forges de Vulcain; 

and [of-the] forests of reeds, of-the forges of Vulcan; 
* Pour peu que. Literally, for little that 



126 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

des plaques verdatres de minium rongent le visage 

[of-the] ^sheets igreenish of red-lead gnaw the face 

de Venus, sans respecter sa beaute. Les arbres memes 

of Venus, without respecting her beauty. The ^trees *very 

assiegent le chateau; les cerisiers sauvages, les ormes, 

besiege the castle; the acherry-trees *wild, the elms, 

les erables montent sur ces combles, enfoncent leurs 

2he maple-trees mount on those roofs, thrust their 

longs pivots dans ces frontons eleves, et dominent 

long tap-roots into those ^pediments *high, and tower 

enfin sur ces coupoles orgueilleuses. Les ruines d' 

at-last over those ^cupolas iproud. The ruins of 

un pare ne sont pas moms dignes des reflexions du 

a park — are not less worthy of-the reflections of-the 

sage que celles des empires : elles montrent egalement 

sage than those of-[the] empires : they show equally 

combien le pouvoir de 1' homme est faible quand il 

how the power of [the] man is weak when he 

lutte contre celui de la nature. 

struggles against that of [the] nature. 

BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. 



LVI. 

Lever du SoleiL 

Rising of-the Sun. 

On le voit s' annoncer de loin par les traits de 

We *him *see ^himself 3 US her from afar by the rays of 

feu qu' il lance au-devant de lui. L' incendie 

fire which he darts before — him. The conflagration 

augmente, 1' orient parait tout en flammes : & leur 

augments, the east seems all in flames: at their 

eclat, on attend 1' astre long-temps avant qu' il 

splendour, we expect the planet long before that he 

so montre ; a chaque instant on croit le voir 

^himself allows; at every instant we think ^nim Uosee 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 127 

paraitre: on le voit enfin. Un point brillant part 

appear: we *him ls ee at-last. A apoint ^brilliant darts 

comme un eclair et remplit aussitot tout 1' espace ; 

like [a] lightning and fills immediately ^whole *the space; 

le voile des tenebres s'efface et tombe; 1' homme 

the veil of-fthe] darkness fades and falls; [the] man 

recommit son sejour, et le trouve embelli. La verdure 

recognises his abode, and ^it *finds embellished. The verdure 

a pris, durant la nuit, une vigueur nouvelle ; le 

has assumed, during the night, a ^vigour inew; the 

jour naissant qui V eclaire, les premiers rayons qui 

alight ^growing which ^it ^Ruminates, the first rays which 

la dorent, la montrent couverte d' un brillant reseau 

*it l gild, «it *show covered with a shining net-work 

de rosee, qui reflechit a 1' 03il la lumiere et les 

of dew, which reflects to the eye the light and the 

couleurs. Les oiseaux en choeur se reunissent et 

colours. The birds in chorus themselves ^assemble and 

saluent de concert le pere de la vie : en ce moment 

greet with harmony the father of [the] life : in that moment 

pas un seul ne se tait. Leur gazouillement, 

not a single one — shimself ikeeps-asilent. Their chirping, 

faible encore, est plus lent et plus doux que dans le 

feeble as-yet, is more slow and more sweet than in the 

reste de la journee : il se-sent de la langueur d' un 

rest of the day: it is-affected with the languor of a 

paisible reveil. Le concours de tous ces objets porte 

peaceful awaking. The concurrence of all these objects carries 

aux sens une impression de fraicheur qui semble 

to-the senses an impression of freshness which seems 

penetrer jusqu' a 1' ame. Il-y-a la une demi-heure 

to-penetrate even to the soul. There-is there a half hour 

d' enchantement auquel nul homme ne resiste : un 

of enchantment [to]-which no man — resists: a 

spectacle si grand, si beau, si delicieux, n' en 

spectacle so grand, so beautiful, so delightful, not sof-them 

laisse aucun de-sang-froid*. 

^leaves *any-one unconcernedly. J. J. ROUSSEAU. 

* De sang froid. Literally, of blood cold. 



128 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



urn, 

Les Ruines de Palmyre. 

The Ruins of Palmyra. 

Le soleil venait-de se-coucher; un bandeau rougeatre 

The sun had-just set; a sfiiiet ^reddish 

marquait encore sa trace a Y horizon lointain des 

amarked istill his track in the horizon ^distant of-the 

monts de la Syrie : la pleine lime, a F orient,. 

mountains of [the] Syria : the full moon, at the east, 

s'elevait sur un fond bleuatre vers les planes rives 

was-rising over a aground ^bluish towards the flat banks 

de 1' Euphrate ; le ciel etait pur, P air calme et 

of the Euphrates; the sky was clear, the air still and 

serein; 1' eclat mourant du jour temperait V 

serene ; the ^brightness *dying of-the day tempered the 

horreur des tenebres ; la fraicheur naissante de la 

horror of-the darkness; the "coolness ^growing of the 

nuit calmait les feux de la terre embrasee; les patres 

night calmed the fires of the s ea rth inflamed ; the herdsmen 

avaient retire leurs chameaux; 1' osil n' apercevait 

had withdrawn their camels ; the eye *no 1 perceived 

plus aucun mouvement sur la plaine monotone et 

longer any motion over the 4p] a in ^monotonous *and 

grisatre ; un silence profond regnait sur le desert ; 

^greyish ; a ^silence *deep reigned over the desert ; 

seulement, a de longs intervalles, on entendait les 

only, at [of] long intervals, one heard the 

lugubres cris de quelques oiseaux de nuit et de quelques 

doleful cries of some birds of night and of some 

chacals. L' ombre croissait, et deja, dans le 

jackals. The shade was-i increasing, and already, in the 

crepuscule, mes regards ne distinguaient plus que les 

twilight, my looks no ^distinguished longer but the 

fantomes blanchatres des colonnes et des murs. — 

aehadows * whitish of-the columns and of-the walla. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 129 

Ces lieux solitaires, cette soiree paisible, cette scene 

These apiaces ^solitary, this ^evening ^peaceful, this a S cene 

majestueuse, imprimerent a mon esprit un recueillement 

imajestic, impressed on my mind a ^recollection 

religieux. L' aspect d' une grande cite deserte, la 

ireligious. The aspect of a great city uninhabited, the 

memoire des temps passes, la comparaison de V 

remembrance of-the times past, the comparison of the 

etat present, tout eleva mon eoeur a de hautes 

^condition ipresent, every-thing elevated my heart to [of] sublime 

pensees. Je m' assis sur le tronc d' une colonne ; 

thoughts, I ^myself ^seated on the shaft of a pillar; 

et la, le coude appuye sur le genou, la tete soutenue 

and there, my elbow supported on my knee, my head sustained 

sur la main, tantot portant mes regards sur le desert, 

on my hand, now directing my looks over the desert, 

tantot les fixant sur les mines, je m' abandonnai a 

now athem ifixing on the ruins, I amyself ^abandoned to 

une reverie profonde. 

a ameditation ideep. 

Ici, me dis-je, ici neurit jadis une ville 

Here, 3to-myself *said al, here flourished formerly an =city 

opulente ; ici fut le siege d' un empire puissant. Oui, 

^opulent ; here was the seat of a aempire ^powerful. Yes, 

ces lieux, maintenant si deserts, jadis une multitude 

these places, now so deserted, formerly a amultitude 

vivante animait leur enceinte, une foule active circulait 

Uiving animated their enclosure, an a C ro\vd ^active moved-about 

dans ces routes aujourd'hui solitaires; en ces murs, 

in these roads at-this-day solitary; within these walls, 

ou regne un morne silence, retentissaient sans cesse 

where reigns a sullen silence, resounded without ceasing 

le bruit des arts et les cris d' allegresse et de fetes; 

the bustle of-the arts and the cries of mirth and of festivities; 

ces marbres amonceles formaient des palais reguliers ; 

these ^marbles ipiled-up formed [of-the] ^palaces ^regular ; 

ces colonnes abattues ornaient la majeste des temples ; 

these apiiiars ^prostrate adorned the majesty of-the temples ; 

ces galeries ecroulees dessinaient les places publiques! 

these agalleries ^crumbled designated the agquares ^public! 

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130 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

La, pour les devoirs respectables de son culte, pour 

Thither, for the ^duties irespectable of its worship, for 

les soins touchants de sa subsistance, affluait un peuple 

the scares ^touching of its sustenance, flocked a ^nation 

nombreux. La, une industrie creatrice de jouissances 

^numerous. There, an industry creative of enjoyments 

appelait les richesses de tous les climats, et 1' on 

invited the riches of all [the] climes, and — people 

voyait s'echanger la pourpre de Tyr pour le fil 

saw exchanged the purple of Tyre for the thread 

precieux de la Serique, les tissus moelleux de 

iprecious of [the] Serica, the ^tissues isoft of 

Cachemire pour les tapis fastueux de la Lydie, 1' 

Cashmere for the Carpets igorgeous of [the] Lydia, the 

ambre de la Baltique pour les perles et les parfums 

amber of the Baltic for the pearls and the perfumes 

d' Arabie, 1' or d' Ophyr pour 1' etain de Thule ! 

of Arabia, the gold of Ophir for the tin of Thule ! 

Et maintenant, voila ce-qui subsiste de cette ville 

And now, behold what subsists of this sdty 

puissante, un lugubre squelette ! Voila ce-qui reste d' 

^powerful, a mournful skeleton ! Behold what remains of 

une vaste domination, un souvenir obscur et vain! 

a vast dominion, an *remembrance ^obscure sand 3vain! 

Au concours bruyant qui se-pressait sous ces 

To-the ^concourse * bustling which crowded under these 

portiques, a succede une solitude de mort. Le silence 

porticoes, has succeeded a solitude of death. The stillness 

des tombeaux s' est substitue au murmure des 

of-the tombs ^itself *has ^substituted to-the murmur of-the 

places publiques. L' opulence d' une cite de commerce 

^places ^public. The opulence of a city of commerce 

s' est changee en une pauvrete hideuse. Les 

^itself *has changed into a ^poverty hideous. The 

palais des rois sont devenus le repaire des betes 

palaces of-the kings are become the den of-the leasts 

fauves ; les troupeaux parquent au seuil des 

tfallow; the flocks park at-the threshold of-the 

temples, et les reptiles immondes habitent le sanctuaire 

temples, and the ^reptiles lfilthy inhabit the sanctuary 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 131 

des dieux! — Ah! comment s' est eclipsee tant de 

cf-the gods! Ah! how has disappeared so-much — 

gloire ! — comment se sont aneantis tant de 

glory! how have been-annihilated so-many — 

travaux!— Ainsi done perissent les ouvrages des 

works! Thus then perish the works of-[the] 

hommes ! Ainsi s'evanouissent les empires et les 

men ! Thus vanish-away [the] empires and [the] 

nations ! 

nations ! 



LVIIL 

Aspect Physique et Moral de Constantinople. 

•Aspect ^Physical *and 3 Moral of Constantinople. 

Constantinople, et surtout la cote d' Asie, etaient 

Constantinople, and especially the coast of Asia, were 

noyees dans le brouillard : les cypres et les minarets 

drowned in the fog: the cypresses and the minarets 

que j\ apercevais a-travers cette vapeur, presentaient 

which I perceived through that vapour, presented 

1' aspect d' une foret depouillee. Com me nous 

the aspect of a ^forest inaked. As we 

approchions de la pointe du serail, le vent du 

approached [of] the point of-the seraglio, the wind of-the 

nord s'eleva, et balaya, en moins de quelques minutes, 

north arose, and swept-orT, in less than a-few minutes, 

la brume repandue sur ce tableau; je me trouvai 

the haze spread over that picture; I ^myself ifound 

tout-a-coup au milieu des palais du commandeur 

all-of-a-sudden in-the middle of-the palaces of-the commander 

des croyants. Devant moi le canal de la mer 

of-the faithful. Before me the channel of the 3 sea 

Noire serpentait entre des collines riantes, 

*Black wound-about between [of-the] chills ^pleasant, 

ainsi qu' un fleuve superbe : j' avais a ma 

in-the-same-manner as a driver ^superb: I had to my 



132 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

droite la terre d' Asie et la ville de Scutari : la terre 

right the land of Asia and the city of Scutari : the land 

d' Europe etait a ma gauche : elle formait, en se 

of Europe was to my left: it formed, in itself 

creusant, une large baie pleine de grands na vires a 1' 

^deepening, a wide bay full of large ships at [the] 

ancre, et traversee par d' innombrables petits bateaux. 

anchor, and traversed by [of] innumerable small boats. 

Cette baie, renfermee entre deux coteaux, presentait 

That bay, enclosed between two hills, presented 

en-regard et en amphitheatre Constantinople et 

facing-each-other and in an amphitheatre Constantinople and 

Galata. L' immensite de ces trois villes etagees, 

Galata. The immensity of these three cities ^shelving, 

Galata, Constantinople et Scutari ; les cypres, les 

Galata, Constantinople and Scutari; the cypresses, the 

minarets, les mats des vaisseaux qui s'elevaient et 

minarets, the masts of-the ships which arose and 

se confondaient de toutes parts ; la verdure des 

^themselves imingled on all sides: the verdure of-the 

arbres, les couleurs des maisons blanches et rouges; 

trees, the colours of-the 4 houses *white 2 and sred ; 

la mer qui etendait sous ces objets sa nappe, bleue, 

the sea which extended under these objects its ssheet iblue, 

et le ciel qui deroulait au-dessus un autre champ d' 

and the sky which unrolled above an other field of 

azur : voila ce-que j' admirais ; on n' exagere point, 

azure : this-is what I admired ; people — exaggerate not, 

quand on dit que Constantinople offre le plus beau 

when they say that Constantinople presents the most beautiful 

point de vue de P univers. 

point of view of the universe. 

Nous abordames a Galata: je remarquai 

We arrived at Galata: I remarked 

sur-le-champ le mouvement des quais, et la foule 

immediately the stir of-the quays, and the crowd 

des porteurs, des marchands et des mariniers ; 

of-the porters, of-the merchants and of-the mariners; 

ceux-ci annon^aient, par la couleur diverse de leurs 

these showed, by the ^colour ^various of their 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 133 

visages, par la difference de leurs langages, de leurs 

faces, by the difference of their languages, of their 

habits, de leurs chapeaux, de leurs bonnets, de leurs 

garments, of their hats, of their caps, of their 

turbans, qu' ils etaient venus de toutes les parties de 

turbans, that they were come from all [the] parts of 

P Europe et de 1' Asie habiter cette frontiere de 

[the] Europe and of [the] Asia to-inhabit that frontier of 

deux mondes. L' absence presque totale des femmes, 

two worlds. The aabsence ^almost stotal of-[the] women, 

le manque de voitures a ag roues, et les meutes de 

the want of Carriages — i wheel, and the packs of 

chiens sans maitres, furent les trois caracteres distinctifs 

dogs without masters, were the three ^characters idistinctive 

qui me frapperent d'abord dans V interieur de cette 

which sme ^struck at-first in the interior of that 

ville extraordinaire. Comme on ne marche guere 

scity ^extraordinary. As people — 2 W alk ^scarcely 

qu' en babouches, qu' on n' entend aucun bruit de 

but in slippers, as one ^not ihears any noise of 

carrosses ni de charrettes, qu' il-n'y-a point de cloches, 

coaches nor of carts, as there-are not any bells, 

et tres-peu de metiers a marteau, le silence est 

and very few — ^trades — ^hammer, the stillness is 

continuel. Vous voyez autour de vous une foule muette, 

continual. You see around — you a scrowd imute, 

qui semble vouloir passer sans etre apertjue, et 

which seems to-wish to-pass without being perceived, and 

qui a toujours 1' air de se-derober aux regards 

which has always the air of shunning [to]-the looks 

du maitre. ' Vous . arrivez sans-cesse d' un bazar 

of-the master. You come continually from a bazar 

a un cimetiere, comme si les Turcs n' Etaient la que 

to a church-yard, as if the Turks — were there only 

pour acheter, vendre et mourir. Ces cimetieres 

in-order to-buy, to-sell and to-die. Those church-yards 

sans murs et places au milieu des rues sont des 

without walls and placed in-the middle of-the streets are [of-the] 

bois magnifiques de cypres : les colombes font leurs 

awoods ^magnificent of cypresses: the doves make their 



134 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

nids dans ces cypres, et partagent la paix des 

nests in those cypresses, and share the peace of-the 

morts. On decouvre ca et la quelques monuments 

dead. We discover here and there some ^monuments 

antiques qui n' ont de rapport, ni avec les 

^antique which *no ihave [of] relation, neither with [the] 

hommes modernes, ni avec les monuments nouveaux 

amen ^modern, nor with the ^monuments mew 

dont ils sont environnes : on dirait qu' ils ont 

by-which they are surrounded: one would-say that they have 

ete transported dans cette ville orientale par 1' effet d' 

been transported into that ^city leastern by the effect of 

un talisman. Aucun signe de joie, aucune apparence 

a talisman. No sign of joy, no appearance 

de bonheur ne se montre a vos yeux : ce-qu' on 

of happiness — itself ^hows to your eyes : what one 

voit n' est pas un peuple, mais un troupeau qu' un 

sees — is not a nation, but a flock which an 

iman conduit, et qu' un janissaire egorge. Il-n'y-a 

iman leads, and which a janizary kills. There-is-no 

d' autre plaisir que la debauche, d' autre peine 

[of] other pleasure but [the] debauchery, [of] other suffering 

que la mort. Au-milieu des prisons et des bagnes 

but [the] death. In-the-middle of-the prisons and of-the bagnios 

s'eleve un serail, capitole de la servitude : c' est 

towers a seraglio, the capitol of [the] slavery : it is 

la qu' un gardien sacre conserve les germes de la 

there that a ^guardian isacred keeps the germs of [the] 

peste et les lois primitives de la tyrannie. De 

pestilence and the slaws ^primitive of [the] tyranny. [Of] 

pales adorateurs rodent sans cesse autour du temple, 

pale worshippers roam without ceasing around [of]-the temple, 

et viennent apporter leurs tetes a 1' idole. Rien ne 

and come to-bring their heads to the idol. Nothing — 

peut les soustraire au sacrifice; ils sont entraines 

can *them 1 withdraw frorn-the sacrifice; they are hurried-along 

par un pouvoir fatal : les yeux du despote attirent les 

by a *power »fatal: the eyes of-the despot attract the 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 135 

esclaves comme les regards du serpent fascinent les 

slaves as the looks of-the serpent fascinate the 

oiseaux dont il fait sa proie. 

birds of-whieh he makes his prey. CHATEAUBRIAND. 



LIX. 

Prise de la Bastille. 

Taking of the Bastille. 

Le peuple, des la nuit du 13 juillet (1789), s*etait« 

The people, on the night of-the 13th July, 1789, had- 

porte vers la Bastille ; quelques - coups -de - fusil- 
moved towards the Bastille ; some-musquets-had-been- 

avaient-ete-tires, et il parait que des instigateurs 

fired, and it appears that [of]-the instigators 

avaient profere plusieurs fois le cri, A la Bastille ! 

had uttered many times the cry, To the Bastille ! 

Le voeu de sa destruction se-trouvait dans quelques 

The desire for its destruction was-found in some 

cahiers ; ainsi, les idees avaient pris d'avance cette 

state-resolves ; so-that the thoughts had taken in-advance that 

direction. On demandait toujours des amies. Le 

direction. People demanded always [of-the] arms. The 

bruit s'etait-repandu que 1' Hotel des Invalides en 

report was-spread that the Hotel of-the Invalids sof-them 

contenait un depot considerable. On s'y-rend aussitot. 

^contained a a +depot Considerable. They repair-thither immediately. 

Le commandant, M. de Sombreuil, en fait defendre 

The commander, Mr. de Sombreuil, sof-it ^causes *to-defend 

P entree, disant qu' il doit demander des ordres 

nhe 'entrance, saying that he ought to-ask [of-the] orders 

a Versailles. Le peuple ne veut rien entendre, 

from Versailles. The people ^not iwish ^any-thing no-hear, 

se precipite dans 1' hotel, enleve les canons et 

^themselves ^precipitate into the hotel, take-away the cannons and 

une grande quantite de fusils. Deja dans ce moment 

a great quantity of musquets. Already at that moment 



136 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

une foule considerable assiegeait la Bastille. Les 

a acrowd ^considerable was-besieging the Bastille. The 

assiegeants disaient que le canon de la place e'tait 

besiegers said that the cannon of the place was 

dirige sur la ville, et qu' il fallait empecher qu' 

directed on the city, and that it was-necessary to-prevent that 

on ne tirat sur elle. Le depute d' un district 

they — should-fire upon it. The deputy of a district 

demande a etre introduit dans la forteresse, et 1' 

demands to be introduced into the fortress, and sit 

obtient du commandant. En faisant la visite, il 

i-obtains from-the commander. While making the search, he 

trouve trente-deux Suisses et quatre-vingt-deux invalides, 

finds thirty-two Swiss and ' eighty-two invalids, 

et recoit la parole de la garnison de ne-pas faire-feu, 

and receives the promise of the garrison ^to *not fire, 

si elle n' est attaquee. Pendant ces pourparlers, le 

if it snot lis attacked. During these conferences, the 

peuple, ne voyant pas paraitre son depute, commence 

people, — ^seeing inot ^appear stheir *deputy, begin 

a s'irriter, et celui-ci est oblige de se montrer 

to get-angry, and the-latter is obliged to ^himself ishovv 

pour apaiser la multitude. II se retire enfin 

in-order to-calm the multitude. He ^himself nvithdraws at-Iast 

vers onze heures du matin. Une demi-heure s'etait 

towards eleven o'clock in-the morning. A half hour had 

a peine ecoulee, qu' une nouvelle troupe arrive en 

scarcely elapsed, when a new troop arrives in 

armes, en criant : Nous voulons la Bastille ! La 

arms, while crying: We want the Bastille! The 

garnison somme les assaillants de se retirer, mais 

garrison calls-upon the assailants to ^themselves i withdraw, but 

ils s'obstinent. Deux hommes montent avec intrepidite 

they are-obstinate. Two men mount with intrepidity 

sur le toit du corps-de-garde, et brisent a coups 

on the roof of-the guard-house, and break with strokes 

de hache les chaines du pont qui retombe. La 

[of] ihatchet the chains of-the bridge, which falls. The 

foule s' y precipite, et court a un second pont 

crowd ^itself aupon-it ^precipitates, and runs to a second bridge 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 137 

pour le franchir de-meme. En ce moment une 

in-order 3 it ito-cross in-the-same-manner. At that moment a 

decharge de mousqueterie 1' arrete : elle recule, mais 

volley of musquetry *it istops: it recoils, but 

en faisant-feu. Le combat dure quelques instants; 

while firing. The combat lasts some moments; 

les electeurs, reunis a 1' H6tel-de-Vi]le, entendant le 

the electors, assembled at the Hotel-de-Ville, hearing the 

bruit de la mousqueterie, s'alarment toujours davantage, 

report of the musquetry, get-alarmed still more, 

et envoient deux deputations 1' une sur V autre, 

ahd send two deputations the one upon the other, 

pour soramer le commandant de laisser introduire 

in-order to-summon the commander to permit to-introduee 

dans la place un detachement de milice parisienne, 

into the place a detachment of ^militia ^Parisian, 

sur le motif que toute force militaire dans Paris doit 

on the principle that all aforce military in Paris ought 

etre sous la main de la ville. Ces deux deputations 

to-be under the hand of the city. Those two deputations 

arrivent successivement. Au milieu de ce siege 

arrive successively. In-the middle of that ^siege 

populaire, il etait tres-difricile de se faire entendre. 

^popular, it was very difficult to ^oneself imake understood. 

Le bruit du tambour, la vue d' un drapeau, suspendent 

The clang of-the drum, the sight of a flag, suspend 

quelque temps le feu. Les deputes s'avancent ; la 

for some time the fire. The deputies advance; the 

garnison les attend, mais i] est impossible de s' 

garrison athem 1 waits-for, but it is impossible to Oneself 

expliquer. Des-coups-de-fusil-sont-tires, on ne sait 

^explain. Shots-are-fired, one ^not *knows 

d'oii. Le peuple, persuade qu' il est trahi, se-precipite 

whence. The people, persuaded that it is betrayed, rushes 

pour mettre le feu a la place ; la gamison tire alors 

to set [the] fire to the place ; the garrison 2fires Uhen 

a mitraille. Les gardes francaises arrivent avec du 

with grape-shot. The ^Guards ^French arrive with [of-the] 

canon et commencent une attaque en-forme. 

cannon and commence an attack in form. 



138 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

Sur-ces-entrefaites, un billet adresse par le baron 

In*the-mean- while, a note addressed by the baron 

de Besenval a Delaunay, commandant de la Bastille, 

de Besenval to Delaunay, commander of the Bastille, 

est intercepte et lu a 1' H6tel-de-Ville ; Besenval 

is intercepted and read in the Hotel de Ville ; Besenval 

engageait Delaunay a resisted, ]ui assurant qu' il 

solicited Delaunay to resist, «him lassuring that he 

serait bientot secouru. C etait en effet dans la soiree 

iwould-sbe *soon succoured, It was in fact in the evening 

de ce jour que devaient s'executer les projets de 

of that day that swere-to-be ^executed Uhe ^projects 3 f 

la cour. Cependant Delaunay, n' etant point secouru, 

*the scourt. However, Delaunay, — sbeing *not succoured, 

voyant 1' acharnement du peuple, se-saisit d' une meche 

seeing the fury of-the people, lays-hold of a *match 

allumee et veut faire-sauter la place. La garnison s' 

^lighted and wishes to-blow-up the place. The garrison itself 

y oppose et 1' oblige a se-rendre: les signaux sont 

no-it ^opposes and «him ^forces to surrender: the signals are 

donnes, un pont est baisse. Les assiegeants s'approchent 

given, a bridge is lowered. The besiegers approach 

en promettant de ne commettre aucun mal; mais la 

while promising Ho *not do any harm; but the 

foule se precipite et envahit les cours. Les Suisses 

crowd ^itself ^precipitates and invades the yards. The Swiss 

parviennent a se sauver. Les invalides assaillis ne 

succeed in ^themselves ^saving. The invalids assailed — 

sont arraches a la fureur du peuple que par le 

are snatched from the fury of-the people only by the 

devoument des gardes franc aises. En ce moment, une 

devotedness of-the ^Guards vFrench. At that moment, a 

fille, belle, jeune et tremblante, se presente : on 

girl, beautiful, young and trembling, ^herself ^presents: they 

la suppose fille de Delaunay; on la saisit, et elle 

*her Uhink the daughter of Delaunay; they ^her *seize, and she 

allait etre brulee, lorsqu' un brave soldat se-precipite, 

was-going to-be burned, when a brave soldier rushes-in, 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 139 

1' arrache aux furieux, court la mettre en 

aher ^snatches from-the furious men, runs aber Uo-place in 

surete, et retourne a la melee. 

safety, and returns to the conflict. 

II etait cinq-heures-et-demie. Les electeurs etaient 

It was half-past-five. The electors were 

dans la plus cruelle anxiete, Iorsqu' ils entendent un 

in the most cruel anxiety, when they hear a 

murmure sourd et prolonge. Une foule se-precipite 

murmur hollow and prolonged, A crowd rushes-on 

en criant victoire. La salle est envahie ; un garde 

[in] crying victory. The hall is invaded; a *Guard 

franchise, couvert de blessures, couronne de lauriers, 

J French, covered with wounds, crowned with laurels, 

est porte en triomphe par le peuple. Le reglement 

is carried in triumph by the people. The regulations 

et les clefs de la Bastille sont au bout d' une 

and the keys of the Bastille are on-the end of a 

baionnette ; une main sanglante, s'elevant au-dessus 

bayonet ; a 2 hand ibloody, rising above 

de la foule, montre une boucle-de-col : c' etait celle 

— the crowd, shows a neck-buckle : it was that 

du gouverneur Delaunay qui venait-d'etre decapite. 

of-the governor Delaunay who had-just-been beheaded. 

Deux gardes franeaises, Elie et Hullin, ]' avaient 

Two ^Guards ^French, Elie and Hullin, &him ihad 

defendu jusqu' a la derniere extremite. D'autres 

^defended even to the last extremity. Other 

victimes avaient succombe, quoique defendues avec 

victims had fallen, although defended with 

heroi'sme contre la ferocite de la populace. Une 

heroism against the ferocity of the mob. A 

espece de fureur commencait a eclater contre Fles- 

sort of fury began to break-out against Fles- 

selles, le prevot des marchands, qu' on accusait de 

selles, the provost of-the merchants, whom people accused of 

trahison. On pretendait qu' il avait trompe le peu- 

treason. They pretended that he had deceived the peo- 
ple en lui promettant plusieurs fois des armes 
pie in athem ^promising many times [of-the] arms 



140 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

qu' il ne voulait pas lui donner. La salle etait pleine 

which he — wished not sthem Uo-give. The hall was full 

d' hommes tout bouillants d' un long combat, et 

of men quite hot from a long combat, and 

presses par cent mille autres qui, restes au 

pressed by a hundred thousand others who, left on -the 

dehors, voulaient entrer a leur tour. Les electeurs 

outside, wished to-enter in their turn. The electors 

s'efToreaient de justifier Flesselles aux yeux de la 

endeavoured to justify Flesselles in-the eyes of the 

multitude. II commen<jait a perdre son assurance, et 

multitude. He began to lose his confidence, and 

deja tout pale il s' eerie : — "Puisque je suis suspect 

already quite pale he exclaims : — " Since I am suspected 

je me retirerai." — " Non," lui dit-on ; " venez au 

I ^myself 1 will-withdraw." — "No," sto-him »say-2they; "come to-the 

Palais-Royal pour y etre juge." II descend alors 

Palais-Royal in-order athere *to-be tried." He ^descends l then 

pour s' y rendre. La multitude s'ebranle, 1' en- 
in-order ^thither Uo-repair. The multitude move, shim isur- 

toure, le presse. Arrive au quai Pelletier, un in- 
round, 2 him ipress. Arrived at-the quay Pelletier, an un- 

connu le renverse d' un coup de pistolet. On 

unknown person ^him ^prostrates by a ashot — ipistol. People 

pretend qu' on avait saisi une lettre sur De- 
pretend that one had seized a letter on De* 

launay, dans laquelle Flesselles lui disait: "Tenez 

launay, in which Flesselles ato-him *said : " Hold 

bon, tandis-que j' amuse les Parisiens avec des 

firm, whilst I amuse the Parisians with [of-the] 

cocardes !" 

cockades !" THIERS. 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 141 



LX. 

De la Terre. 

Of the Earth. 

Qui est-ce qui a suspendu €e globe de la terre? qui 

Who is it that has suspended this globe of the earth ? who 

€st-ce qui en a pose les fondements ? Rien n' est, 

is it that sof-itihas slaid 3 the 'foundations 7 Nothing: — is, 

ce semble, plus vil qu' elle ; les plus malheureux la 

it seems, more vile than it; the most wretched ait 

foulent aux pieds; mais c' est pourtant pour la 

nrample with-their feet; but *it 3i s inevertheless in-order sit 

posseder qu' on donne les plus-grands tresors. Si elle 

Uo-possess that we give the greatest treasures. If it 

etait plus dure, 1' homme ne pourrait en ouvrir le 

was more hard, [the] man anot *could eof-it sopen nhe 

sein pour la cultiver; si elle etait moins dure, elle 

*bosom in-order *it no-cultivate; if it was less hard, it 

ne pourrait 5e porter; il enfoncerait partout, comme 

"^not icould «him sbear; he would-sink every-where, as 

il enfonce dans le sable ou dans un bourbier. C est 

he sinks into [the] sand or into a slough. It is 

du sein inepui sable de la terre que sort tout ce 

from-the ^bosom ^inexhaustible of the earth that issues all that 

qu' il-y-a de plus precieux. 

which there-is of most precious. 

Cette masse informe, vile et grossiere, prend 

That smass ishapeless, ^vile sand ^coarse, takes 

toutes les formes les-plus diverses, et elle seule donne 

all nhe iforms most diverse, and it alone gives 

tour-a-tour tous les biens que nous lui demandons. 

by-turns all the riches which we 2 f-jt task. 

Cette boue si sale se transforme en mille beaux 

That mud so dirty ^itself ^transforms into a thousand beautiful 

objets qui charment les yeux. En une seule annee 

objects which charm the eyes. In a single year 



142 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

elle devient branches, boutons, feuilles, flenrs, fruits et 

it becomes branches, buds, leaves, flowers, fruits and 

semences, pour renouveler ses liberalites en faveur 

seeds, in-order to-renew its bounties in favour 

des hommes; rien ne F epuise. Plus on 

of-[the] men ; nothing — ait ^exhausts. The more we 

dechire ses entrailles, plus elle est liberate. Apres 

tear its bowels, the more it is liberal. After 

tant de siecles, pendant Iesquels tout est sorti 

so-many — ages, during which every-thing has proceeded 

d' elle, elle n' est point encore usee. Elle ne 

from it, it — is not yet worn-out. It ^not 

ressent aucune vieillesse; ses entrailles sont encore 

ifeels any old-age; its entrails are still 

pleines des memes tresors. Mi lie generations 

full of-the same treasures. Jl thousand generations 

ont passe dans son seim Tout vieillit, excepte 

have passed into its bosom. Every-thing grows-old, except 

elle seule ; elle rajeunit chaque annee au 

it only; it grows-young-again every year at-[the] 

printemps. 

spring. 

Elle ne manque point aux hommes; mais les 

It — is-*wanting *not to-[the] men ; but [the] 

hommes insenses se-manquent a eux-memes, en 

*men ifoolish are-wanting to themselves, in 

negligeant de la cultiver. C est par leur paresse et 

neglecting to ^it ^cultivate. It is through their laziness and 

par leurs desordres qu' ils laissent croitre les ronces 

through their irregularities that they permit «to-grow C the ] 'briars 

et les epines, en la place des vendanges et des 

*and [the] nhorns, in the place of-[the] vintages and of-[theJ 

moissons. lis se-disputent un bien qu' ils 

harvests. They contend-for a possession which they 

laissent perdre. Les conquerants laissent en friche la 

leave to-spoil. [The] conquerors leave in fallow the 

terre, pour la possession de laquelle ils ont fait 

land, for the possession of which they have caused 

perir tant de milliers d' hommes, et ont passe 

Uo-perish >so-many — ^thousands *of 4 men, and have passed 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 143 

leur vie dans une terrible agitation. Les hommes ont 

their life in a dreadful agitation. [The] men have 

devant eux des terres immenses qui sont vides et 

before them [of-the] alands ^immense which are vacant and 

incultes; et ils renversent le genre humain pour un 

uncultivated; and they overthrow the »race *human for a 

coin de cette terre si negligee. La terre, si elle etait 

spot of that land so neglected. The land if it were 

hien cultivee, nourrirait cent fois plus d' hommes 

well cultivated, would-nourish a hundred times more — men 

qu' elle n' ^n nourrit. U inegalite meme des 

than it — ^of-them *nourishes. a The sdisparity leven of-the 

terroirs, qui parait d'abord un defaut, se tourne en 

soils, which appears at-first a defect, ^itself Uurns into 

ornement et en utilite. Les montagnes se-sont 

ornament and into utility. The mountains have 

elevees, et les vallons sont descendus a la place que 

arisen, and the valleys have descended to the place which 

le Seigneur leur a marquee, 

Che Lord ato-them *has Assigned. 

Ces diverses terres, suivant les divers aspects 

These diverse lands, according-to the diverse aspects 

du soleil, ont leurs avantages. Dans ces profondes 

of-the sun, have their advantages. In those deep 

bailees on voit croitre V herbe fraiche pour nourrir 

valleys one sees grow the agrass *fresh to nourish 

les troupeaux. Aupres d' elles s'ouvrent de vastes 

the flocks. Close liy them open [of] extensive 

campagnes revetues de riches moissons. Ici, des 

fields clothed with copious harvests. Here, (of-the] 

coteaux s'elevent comme un amphitheatre, et sont 

hills arise like an amphitheatre, and are 

couronnes de vignobles et d 9 arbres fruitiers. La, 

crowned with vineyards and with «trees ifruit. There, 

de hautes montagnes vont porter leur front glace 

[of] high mountains advance to-carry their abrow *icy 

jusque dans les nues, et les torrents qui en 

even into the clouds, and the torrents which sfroni-them 

iombent sont les sources des rivieres. Les rochers 

full are the sources of-the rivers. The rocks 



144 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

qui montrent leur cime escarpee soutiennent la terre 

that show their Summit isteep support the earth 

des montagnes, com me les os du corps humain 

of-the mountains, as the bones of-the abody ihuman 

en soutiennent les chairs. Cette variete fait le 

*of-it ^support *the aflesh. This variety makes the 

charme des paysages; en meme temps elle satisfait 

charm of-the landscapes; at-the same time it satisfies 

aux divers besoins des peuples: il-n'y-a point 3e 

[to]-the diverse wants of-the people: there-is-not aat-all *any 

terroir si ingrat qui n' ait quelque propriety 

^soil so ungrateful which snot imay-^have some property, 

FENELOISL 



LXI. 

1a Immaterialite de V Ame. 

The Immateriality of the Soul. 

Plus je rentre en moi et plus je me 

The more I descend into myself and the more I 3 m ysel£ 

consulte, plus je lis ces mots ecrits dans mon 

^consult, the more I read these words written in my 

ame : Sois juste et tu seras heureux ! II* n' en 

soul: Be just and thou shalt-be happy! There snot*of-i& 

est rien pourtant, a considerer 1' etat present. 

lis aany-thing nevertheless, on considering the Estate ipreseni 

des choses: le mechant prospere, et le juste reste 

of-[the] things: the wicked prospers, and the just remains 

opprime. Voyez aussi quelle indignation s'allume 

oppressed. Behold therefore what indignation kindles 

en nous quand cette attente est frustree ! la 

within us when this expectation is frustrated! [the] 

conscience s'eleve et murmure centre son auteur; elle 

conscieme arises and murmurs against its author; it 

lui crie en gemissant: "Tu m' as trompe !" 

ato-him *cries in groaning: Thou 3 me *hast deceived! 



* The impersonal pronoun il is rendered there, and will here- 
after be so rendered, in this idiom. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 145 



"Je t' ai trompe, temeraire ! qui te Y 

I nhee ihave deceived, rash man ! who *to-thee ait 

a dit ? Ton ame est-elle aneantie ? as - tu cesse 

ihas stold? 2 Thy 8 soul *is — annihilated? hast thou ceased 

<T exister ? 6 Brutus ! 6 mon fils ! ne souille point ta 

to exist? O Brutus! O my son! — sully not thy 

noble vie en la finissant: ne laisse point ton espoir 

noble life while 3 it ^finishing: — leave not thy hope 

et ta gloire avec ton corps aux champs de Philippes. 

and thy glory with thy body to-the fields of Philippi. 

Pourquoi dis - tu la vertu n' est rien, quand tu 

Why sayest thou [the] virtue — is nothing, when thou 

vas jouir du prix de la-tienne 1 Tu vas 

art-going to-enjoy [of]-the price of thine? Thou art-going 

mourir, penses-tu; non, tu vas vivre, et c' est 

to-die, thinkest thou^ no, thou art-going to-live, and it is 

alors que je tiendrai tout ce que je t' ai 

then that I will-keep all that which I sthee *have 

promis !" 

^promised ! 

On dirait aux murmures des impatients 

One would-say at-the murmurings of-the impatient 

mortels, que Dieu leur doit la recompense avant le 

mortals, that God ^tothem iowes the reward before the 

merite, et qu' il est oblige de payer leur vertu d* 

merit, and that he is obliged to recompense their virtue in 

avance. Oh! soyons bons d' abord, et puis nous 

advance. Oh! let-us-be good at first, and then we 

serous heureux. N' exigeons pas le prix avant la 

shall-be happy. — Let-us-^require inot the prize before the 

victoire, ni le salaire avant le travail. Ce n' est 

victory, nor the wages before the labour. It — is 

point dans la lice, disait Plutarque, que les vainqueurs 

not within the list, said Plutarch, that the conquerors 

de nos jeux sacres sont couronnes, c' est apres qu' ils 

of our agames isacred are crowned, it is after that they 

1' ont parcourue. 

»it ihave ^run. 

Si 1' ame est immaterielle, elle peut survivre 

If the soul is immaterial, it can survive 

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146 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

au corps; et, si elle Jui survit, la Providence 

[to]-the body; and, if it sit ^survives, [the] Providence 

est justiflee. Quand je n' aurais d' autre preuve 

is justified. Though I anot *should-»have any other proof 

de F immateriality de 1' ame, que le triomphe du 

of the immateriality of the soul, than the triumph of-the 

mediant et F oppression du juste en ce monde, 

wicked and the oppression of-the just in this world, 

cela seul m' empecherait d' en douter. Une si 

that alone ^me *would-prevent from ^of-it ^doubting. »A *so 

choquante dissonance dans 1' harmonie universe lie me 

^shocking dissonance in the ^harmony ^universal «me 

ferait chereher a la resoudre. Je me dirais : 

3would-make seek to *it isolve. I «to-myself *would-say ; 

" Tout ne finit pas pour moi avec la vie ; tout 

Every-thing — finishes not for me with [the] life; every -thing 

rentre dans F ordre a la mort." 

returns into [the] order at [the] death. J. J. ROUSSEAU. 



LXIL 

IS Evangile* 

The Gospel. 

La majeste des ecritures m' etonne; la saintete 

The majesty of-the Scriptures ame ^astonishes; the holiness 

de Y evangile parle a mon cceur. Voyez les Evres 

of the gospel speaks to my heart. Observe tire books 

des philosophes avec toute leur pompe ; qu' ils sont 

of-the philosophers with all their pomp; how *they 3arc 

petits pres de celui-la ! Se-peut-il qu' un livre, 

ismall in-comparison of that! Is-*possible *it that a book, 

a-la-fois si sublime et si sage, soit ]' ouvrage des 

at-once so sublime and so wise, can-be the work of-[the] 

hommes ! Se - peut - il que celui dont il fait 1' histoire 

men ! Is-^possible »it that he of- whom it makes the history 

ne soit qu' un homme lui-meme ? Est-ce la le ton 

— can-be but a man himself? Is that there the tone 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 147 

d' un enthousiaste ou d' un ambitieux sectaire ? Quelle 

of an enthusiast or of an ambitious sectary 1 What 

douceur ! quelle purete dans ses moeurs ! quelle grace 

mildness! what purity in his manners! what sgrace 

touchante dans ses instructions ! quelle elevation dans 

^touching in his instructions! what sublimity in 

ses maximes ! quelle profonde sagesse dans ses discours ! 

his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! 

quelle presence d' esprit, quelle finesse et quelle justesse 

what presence of mind, what delicacy and what justness 

dans ses reponses ! quel empire sur ses passions ! Ou 

in his answers! what command over his passions! Where 

est 1' homme, ou est le sage qui sait agir, 

is the man, where is the sage who knows how to-act, 

souffrir et mourir, sans faiblesse et sans ostentation? 

to-suffer and to-die, without weakness and without ostentation ? 

Q,uand Platon peint son juste imaginaire couvert 

When Plato depicts his sjust zman ^imaginary covered 

de tout 1' opprobre du crime, et digne de tous les 

with all the ignominy of-[the] crime, and worthy of all the 

prix de la vertu, il peint trait pour trait Jesus-Christ; 

prizes of [the] virtue, he depicts trait for trait Jesus Christ; 

la ressemblance est si frappante que tous les peres V 

the resemblance is so striking that all the fathers sit 

ont sentie, et qu' il n' est pas possible de s' 

*have ^perceived, and that it — is not possible to soneself 

y tromper. 

'therein ^deceive. 

duels prejuges, quel aveuglement ne faut-il point 

What prejudices, what blindness — needs it not 

avoir pour oser comparer le fils de Sophronisque au 

to-have to dare to-compare the son of Sophroniscus to-the 

fils de Marie ! Quelle distance de 1' un a 1' autre ! 

son of Mary! What distance from the one to the other! 

Socrate mourant sans douleur, sans ignominie, soutint 

Socrates dying without pain, without ignominy, supported 

ajsement jusqu' au bout son personnage ; et si cette 

easily even to-the end his character ; and if that 

facile mort n' exit honore sa vie, on douterait si 

easy death *not lnad honoured his life, one might-doubt if 



148 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

Socrate, avec tout son esprit, fut autre chose qu' un 

Socrates, with all his mind, was other thing than a 

sophiste. II inventa, dit - on, la morale ; d' autres, 

sophist. He invented, ^say ithey, [the] morality; [of] others, 

avant lui, 1' avaient mise en pratique ; il ne fit que 

before him, ait *had sput into practice; he — did bat 

dire ce qu' iJs avaient fait; il ne fit que mettre en 

say that which they had done ; he — did but put into 

lemons leurs exemples. Aristide avait ete juste avant 

lessons their examples. Aristides had been just before 

que Socrate eut dit ce-que c' est que la justice. 

that Socrates had said what it is that [the] justice U. 

Leonidas etait mort pour son pays avant que Socrate 

Leonidas was dead for his country before that Socrates 

eut fait un devoir d' aimer sa patrie. Sparte etait 

had made a duty of loving one's country. Sparta was 

sobre avant que Socrate eut loue la sobriete ; 

temperate before that Socrates had praised [the] sobriety; 

avant qu' il eut loue la vertu, la Grece abondait 

before that he had praised [the] virtue, [the] Greece abounded 

en hommes vertueux. Mais ou Jesus avait-il pris 

in 2 m en ivirtuous. But where ajesus ihad — got 

chez les-siens cette morale elevee et pure, 

among his countrymen that 'morality isublime *and apure, 

dont lui seul a donne les leeons et 1' exemple ? 

of-which he alone has given the precepts and the example? 

Du sein du plus furieux fanatisme, la plus haute 

From-the midst of-the most furious fanaticism, the most sublime 

sagesse se fit entendre,*-* et la simplicite des 

wisdom itself *made heard, and the simplicity of-the 

plus heroiques vertus honora le plus vil de tous 

most heroic virtues dignified the most vile of all 

les peuples. La mort de Socrate, philosophant 

[the] nations. The death of Socrates, moralizing 

tranquillement avec ses amis, est la plus douce qu' on 

calmly with his friends, is the most sweet that one 

puisse desirer; celle de Jesus, expirant dans les 

can desire ; that of Jesus, expiring in [the] 

tourments, injurie, raille, maudit de tout un peuple, 

torments, abused, reviled, cursed of ^whole *a nation, 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 149 

est la plus horrible qu' on puisse craindre. Socrate, 

'is the most horrible that one can dread. Socrates, 

prenant la coupe empoisonnee, benit celui qui la lui 

taking, the acup ipoisoned, blesses him who *it 3to-him 

presente et qui pleure. Jesus, au milieu d' un 

^presents and who weeps. Jesus, in-the midst of an 

affreux supplice, prie pour ses bourreaux acharnes. 

excruciating torment, prays for his ^executioners ^merciless. 

Oui, si la vie et la mort de Socrate sont d' 

Yes, if the life and the death of Socrates are those of 

un sage, la vie et la mort de Jesus sont d' un 

a sage, the life and the death of Jesus are those of a 

dieu. 

god. J. J. ROUSSEAU. 



LXIII. 

La Vraie et la Fausse Philanthropic. 

[The] True and [the] False Philanthropy. 

Il-y-a deux manieres de se donner aux hommes* 

There-are two ways of ^oneself ^giving to-[the] men. 

La premiere est de se faire aimer, non pour etre 

The first is to Oneself imake loved, not in-order to-be 

leur idole, mais pour employer leur confiance a les 

their idol, but in-order to-employ their confidence in athem 

rendre bons. Cette philanthropie est toute divine. 

^rendering good. This philanthropy is all divine. 

Il-y en a une autre qui est une fausse monnaie, 

There *one Ms aan sother which is a false coin, 

quand on se donne aux hommes pour leur 

when one ^himself igives to-[the] men in-order ^them 

plaire, pour les eblouir, pour usurper de 1' 

Uo-please, in-order *them Uo-dazzle, in-order to-usurp [of] [the] 

autorite sur eux en les flattant. Ce n' est pas eux 

authority over them by *them ^flattering. It — is not them 

qu' on aime, c' est soi-meme. On n' agit que par 

that one loves, it is oneself. One ^not *acts but through 



150 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

vanite et par interet; on fait semblant de se 

vanity and through interest; one makes pretence to ^himself 

dormer, pour posseder ceux a qui 1' on fait accroire 

igive, in-order to-possess those [to] whom — he causes to -believe 

qu' on se donne a eux. Ce faux philanthrope 

that he ^himself igives to them. This false philanthropist 

est comme un pecheur qui jette un hame^on avec un 

is like a fisherman who throws a hook with a 

appat: il parait nourrir les poissons, mais il les 

bait: he seems to-feed the fishes, but he nhem 

prend, et les fait mourir. Tons les tyrans, tous 

*catches, and ^them nnakes die. All the tyrants, all 

les magistrats, tous les politiques qui ont de V 

the magistrates, all the politicians who have [of] [the] 

ambition, paraissent bienfaisants et genereux ; ils 

ambition, seem benevolent and generous ; they 

paraissent se donner, et ils veulent prendre les 

seem themselves no-give, and they wish to-catch the 

peuples ; ils jettent ]' hame^on dans les festins, dans 

people; they throw the hook into [the] banquets, into 

les compagnies, dans les assemblies publiques ; ils ne 

[the] companies, into [the] ^meetings public ; they — 

sont pas sociables pour 1' interet des hommes, mais 

are not companionable for the interest of-[the] men, but 

pour abuser de tout le genre humain. Ils ont un 

in-order to-misuse [of] all the a r ace ihuman. They have a 

esprit flatteur, insinuant, artificieux, pour 

^disposition iflattering, insinuating, aartful, in-order 

corrompre les moeurs des hommes, et pour reduire 

to-corrupt the morals of-[the] men, and in-order to-reduce 

en servitude tous ceux dont ils ont besoin. La 

into bondage all those of- whom they have need. The 

corruption de ce-qu' il-y-a de meilleur, est le plus 

corruption of what there-is of best, is the most 

pernicieux de tous les maux. De tels hommes sont 

pernicious of all [the] evils. [Of] such men are 

les pestes du genre humain. Au-moins 1' amour-propre 

the bane of-the 2 iace iliuman. At-least the *love 'self 

d' un misanthrope n' est que sauvage et inutile au 

of a misanthrope — is only wild and useless to-tfae 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 151 

monde; mais celui de ces faux philanthropes est 

world; but that of these false philanthropists is 

traitre et tyrannique ; ils promettent toutes les vertus 

perfidious and tyrannical ; they promise all the virtues 

i de la societe, et ils ne font de la societe qu' 

of [the] society, and they — make of [the] society only 

wx trafic dans lequel ils veulent tout attirer a 

a traffic in which they wish aevery-thing no-draw to 

eux, et asservir tous les citoyens. Le misanthrope 

themselves, and enslave all the citizens. The misanthrope 

fait plus de peur et moins de mal. Un serpent qui 

causes more -— fear and less — harm. A serpent that 

se-glisse entre les fleurs est plus a craindre qu' un 

creeps among the flowers is more to be-feared than a 

animal sauvage qui s'enfuit vers sa taniere, des 

^animal *wild which runs-away towards his den, as-soon 

qu' il vous aper^oit. # f 

as he ayou ^perceives. FENELON. 



LXIV. 

jL' Extreme Grandeur et la Derniere 

The Extreme Greatness ' and the Utmost 

Petitesse de la Nature. 

Littleness • of [the] Nature. 

La premiere chose qui s' offre a V homme 

The first object which itself ^presents to [the] man 

quand il se regarde, c' est son corps, c' est-a-dire, 

when he ahimself ^beholds, [it] is his body, that is to say, 

une certaine portion de matiere qui lui est propre. 

a certain portion of matter which no-him »is ©proper. 

Mais, pour comprendre ce-qu' elle est, il faut qu' 

But, in-order to-understand what it is, it is-neccssary that 

il la compare avec tout ce qui est au-dessus de 
he ©it ishould-compare with all that which is above — 



152 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

lui, et tout ce qui est au-dessous, afin de reconnaitre 

him, and all that which is below, in-order to know 

ses justes bornes. 

its exact limits. 

Qu' il ne s'arrete done pas a regarder simplement 

Let him not stop then — to consider simply 

les objets qui 1' environnent; qu' il contemple la 

the objects which shim ^surround; let him contemplate [the] 

nature entiere dans sa haute et pleine majeste ; qu 9 

^nature ^entire in its sublime and full majesty; let 

il considere cette eclatante lumiere, mise comme une 

him consider that effulgent light, placed as an 

lampe eternelle pour eclairer 1' univers; que la 

alamp ^eternal in-order to-enlighten the universe; let the 

terre lui paraisse comme un point au-prix du 

earth sto-him appear like a point in-comparison of-the 

vaste tour que cet astre decrit, et qu' il 

vast revolution which that planet describes, and let him 

s'etonne de ce que ce vaste tour lui-meme n' 

be-astonished with this that this vast revolution itself — 

est qu' un point tres-delicat, a-1'egard de celui que les 

is only a apoint *very ^delicate, in-comparison of that which the 

astres qui roulent dans le firmament embrassent. Mais, 

planets that roll in the firmament embrace. But, 

si notre vue s'arrete la, que 1' imagination passe 

if our sight pause there, let the imagination go 

outre, elle se-lassera plustot de concevoir, que la 

beyond, it iwill- 3 be-4tired ^sooner of conceiving, than [the] 

nature de fournir. Tout ce que nous voyons du 

nature of furnishing. All that which we see of-the 

monde n' est qu' un trait imperceptible dans F ample 

world — is but an amark ^imperceptible in the ample 

sein de la nature : nulle idee n' approche de 1' 

bosom of [the] nature: no idea — approaches [of] the 

etendue de ses espaces. Nous-avons-beau* enfler nos 

extent of its space. It-is-in-vain to-enlarge our 

conceptions, nous n' enfantons que des atomes 

conceptions, we — produce only [of-the] atoms 

* Nous avons beau. Literally, we have fine* 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 153 

au-prix de la realite des choses. C est une 

in-comparison of the reality of-[the] things. It is an 

sphere infinie, dont le centre est partout, la 

^sphere ^infinite, 3 of-which Uhe Centre is everywhere, the 

' circonference rmlle-part. Enfin, c' est un des 

circumference nowhere. In-fine, it is one of-the 

plus-grands caracteres sensibles de la toute-puissance 

greatest ^characteristics ^perceptible of the almightiness 

de Dieu, que notre imagination se perde dans cette 

of God, that our imagination ^itself lean-lose in that 

pensee. 

thought. 

Mais, pour presenter a 1' homme un autre 

But, in-order to-present to [the] man an other 

prodige aussi etonnant, qu' il recherche dans ce-qu' il 

prodigy as astonishing, let him search in what he 

connait les choses les-plus delicates. Q,u' un ciron, 

knows the ^objects imost delicate. Let a flesh-worm, 

par exemple, lui offre dans la petitesse de son 

for example, s to-him ^present in the smallness of its 

corps des parties incomparablement plus-petites, des 

body [of-the] parts incomparably smaller, [of-the] 

jambes avec des jointures, des veines, des 

legs with [of-the] joints, [of-the] veins, [of-the] 

humeurs dans ce sang, des vapeurs dans ces gouttes ; 

humours in that blood, [of-the] vapours in those drops ; 

que, divisant encore ces dernieres choses, il epuise 

elet, idividing ^yet-more 3 these 4 last ^objects, him exhaust 

ses forces et ses conceptions, et que le dernier objet 

his faculties and his conceptions, and Jet the last object 

oii il peut arriver soit maintenant celui de notre 

at-which he can arrive be now that of our 

discours; il pensera peut-etre que c' est la 1' 

discourse; he will-think perhaps that it is there is the 

extreme petitesse de la nature. Je veux lui peindre 

extreme littleness of [the] nature. I wish *to-him J to-depict 

non-seulement 1' univers visible, mais encore tout ce 

not only the ^universe ^visible, but yet all that 

qu' il est capable de concevoir de 1' immensite de 

which he is capable of conceiving of the immensity of 



154 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

la nature dans 1' enceinte de cet atome 

[the] nature within the circumference of that ^atom 

imperceptible. — Q-u' il se perde dans ces 

^imperceptible. — Let him ^himself *lose in those 

merveilles, aussi etonnantes par leur petitesse, que les 

wonders, as astonishing by their littleness, as the 

autres par leur etendue. Car qui n' admirera que 

others by their extent. For who anot iwill-awonder that 

notre corps, qui, tantot n' etait pas perceptible 

our body, which, a-little-while-ago — was not perceptible 

dans 1' univers imperceptible lui-meme dans le sein 

in the universe imperceptible ^itself in the midst 

du tout, soit maintenant un colosse, un monde, ou 

of-the whole, can-be now a giant, a world, or 

plutot un tout a-1'egard de la derniere petitesse ou 

rather a whole in-respect of the extreme littleness at-which 

P on ne peut arriver? 

we 2not ican arrive? PASCAL. 



LXV. 

Faiblesse Humaine. 

^Weakness 1 Human. 

Cet etat qui tient le milieu entre les extremes, 

That state which keeps the middle between the extremes, 

se-trouve en toutes nos puissances. Nos sens n' 

is-to-be-found in all our powers. Our senses — 

aperc^oivent rien d' extreme : trop de bruit nous 

perceive nothing — extreme : too-much — noise *us 

assourdit, trop de lumiere nous eblouit, trop de 

*deafens, too-much — light s us *dazzles, too-much — 

distance et trop de proximite empechent la vue, 

distance and too-much — proximity hinder the sight, 

trop de longueur et trop de brievete obscurcissent 

too-much — length and too-much -- brevity obscure 

un discours, trop de plaisir incommode, trop de 
discourse, too-much — pleasure wearies, too-many -- 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 155 

consonnances deplaisent; nous ne sentons ni 1' 

concords displease; we — have-sense-of neither the 

extreme chaud, ni 1' extreme froid ; les qualites 

extreme heat, nor the extreme cold; the Equalities 

excessives nous sont ennemies, et non-pas sensibles ; 

'excessive Ho-us 3are 4 unfriendly, and not perceptible ^ 

nous ne les sentons plus, nous les souffrons. 

we no sthem afeel Monger, we ^them 'endure. 

Trop de jeunesse et trop de viei Hesse empechent 

Too-much — youth and too-much — old-age impede 

P esprit, trop et trop peu de nourriture troublent 

the mind, too-much and too little — nourishment disturb 

ses actions, trop et trop peu d' instruction P 

its actions, too-much and too little — instruction ait 

abetissent. Les choses extremes sont pour nous 

'stupify. [The] ^objects 'extreme are for us 

comme si elles n' etaient pas, et nous ne sommes 

as if they — were not, and we — are 

point a leur egard : elles nous echappent ou nous 

not with ato-them 'respect : they a us 'escape or we 

a elles. 

[to] them. 

La faiblesse de la raison de P homme parait 

The weakness of the reason of [the] man appears 

bien plus en ceux qui ne la connaissent pas, qu' en 

much more in those who — ait 'know not, than in 

ceux qui la connaissent. Si P on est trop jeune, on ne 

those who ait 'know. If — we are too young, we — 

juge pas bien ; si P on est trop vieux, de-meme ; si P 

judge not right; if — we are too old, the-same ; if — 

on n' y songe pas assez, si P on y songe 

we — *of-it 'think snot 3 S ufficiently, if — we 3 of-it 'think 

trop, on s'entete et P on ne peut trouver la 

too-much, we become-infatuated and — we a n ot 'can find the 

verite. Si P on considere son ouvrage incontinent 

truth. If — a-man considers his work immediately 

apres P avoir fait, on en est encore tout prevenu ; 

after ait 'having adone, he swith-it 'is a s till aquite 4 prepossessed; 

si trop long-temps apres, on n' y entre plus. 

if too long after, he no 3into-it aenters 'longer. 



156 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

Il-n'y-a qu' un point indivisible qui soit le veritable 

There-is only one spoint *indi visible that can-be the right 

lieu pour voir les tableaux ; les autres sont trop pres, 

place to see [the] pictures; the others are too near, 

trop loin, trop haut, trop bas. La perspective P 

too far, too high, too low. [The] perspective a it 

assigne dans F art de la peinture ; mais, dans la 

assigns in the art of [the] painting; but, in [the] 

verite et dans la morale, qui 1' assignera? — 

truth and in [the] morality, who ait ishall-^assign ? 

Cette maitresse de 1' erreur, qu' on appelle 

That mistress of [the] error, which people call 

fantaisie et opinion, est d'autant plus fourbe, qu' elle 

fancy and opinion, is so-much-the more deceitful, that it 

ne 1' est pas toujours ; car elle serait regie infaillible 

— *so lis *not ^always; for it would-be an 3 rule ^infallible 

de verite, si elle 1' etait du mensonge. Mais, etant 

of truth, if it 2 S o nvas of-[the] falsehood. But, being 

le plus sou vent fausse, elle ne donne aucune marque 

the more often false, it 2 not Ogives any sign 

de sa qualite, marquant de meme caractere le vrai 

of its quality, marking with the same character the true 

et le faux. Cette superbe puissance, ennemie de la 

and the false. That haughty power, adverse to [the] 

raison, qui se plait a la controler et a la 

reason, which itself ^delights in Hi ^controlling and in *it 

dominer, pour montrer combien elle peut en toutes 

^commanding, in-order to-show how-much it can do in every 

choses, a etabli dans 1' homme une seconde 

thing, has established within [the] man a second 

nature : elle a ses heureux et ses malheureux, ses 

nature: it has its happy and its unhappy, its 

sains, ses ma lades, ses riches, ses pauvres, ses fous et 

healthy, its sick, its wealthy, its poor, its fools and 

ses sages ; et rien ne nous depite plus, que de voir 

it3 sages; and nothing — 211s *vexes more, than to see 

qu' elle remplit ses notes d' une satisfaction beaucoup 

that it fills its hosts with a satisfaction much 

plus pleine et entiere que la raison. 

more full and entire than [the] reason. 



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Les habiles par imagination se plaisent 

The skilful - by - imagination ^themselves ^delight 

tout autrement en eux-memes que les prudents ne 

quite otherwise within them - selves than the prudent — 

peuvent raisonnablement se plaire ; ils regardent 

can rationally themselves ^delight; they look-at 

les gens avec empire, ils disputent avec hardiesse et 

the people with authority, they dispute with boldness ana 

confiance ; les autres avec crainte et defiance ; et cette 

confidence ; the others with fear and distrust ; and that 

gaite de visage leur donne souvent 1' avantage 

gaiety of countenance no-them igives often the advantage 

dans 1' opinion des ecoutants : tant les sages 

in the opinion of-the listeners: iso-much &the 'sages 

imaginaires ont de faveur aupres de leurs juges de 

^imaginary *have s f 3 credit near — their judges of 

meme nature ! Elle ne peut rendre sages les fous ; 

similar nature ! It ^riot *can make awise [the] *fools ; 

mais elle les rend contents, a 1' envi de la raison, 

but it ^them * makes content, to the envy of [the] reason, 

qui ne peut rendre ses amis que miserables : 1' une 

which — can make its friends only miserable : the one 

les comble de gloire, 1' autre les couvre de honte. 

athem ^covers with glory, the other ^them ^covers with shame. 

Qui dispense la reputation ; qui donne le respect 

What dispenses [the] fame ; what gives [the] respect 

et la veneration aux personnes, aux ouvrages, 

and [the] reverence to-[the] persons, to-[the] works, 

aux grands, sinon 1' opinion ? Combien toutes 

to-the great, if-not [the] opinion? How sail 

les richesses de la terre sont-elles insufrlsantes sans 

♦the sriches s f uhe 8 WO rld aare — *in sufficient without 

son consentement ? L' opinion dispose de tout: 

its concurrence? [The] opinion disposes of every-thing: 

elle fait la beaute, la justice et le bonheur, qui 

it makes [the] beauty, [the] justice and [the] happiness, which 

est le tout du monde. 

is the whole of-the world. PASCAL. 



158 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



LXVL 

Les Plaisirs de la Vie Champetre^ opposes 

The Pleasures of the 3 Life *Rural, opposed 

aux Plaisirs des Villes. 

to-the Pleasures of-[the] Cities. 

Euthymene nous parlalt avec plaisir des travaux de la 

Euthymenes *to-us *spoke with pleasure of-the labours of the 

campagne, avec transport des agrements de la vie 

country, with transport of-the enjoyments of the *life 

champetre. 

*rural. 

Un soir, assis & table devant sa maison, sous 

One evening, seated at table before his house, under 

de superbes platanes qui se courbaient au-dessus 

[of] beautiful plane-trees which ^themselves ibent over 

de nos tetes, il nous disait: "duand je me-promene 

— our heads, he ato-us isaid: When I walk 

dans mon champ, tout rit, tout s' embellit 

in my field, every- thing smiles, every-thing itself ^embellishes 

a mes yeux. Ces moissons, ces arbres, ces plantes, 

to my eyes. These harvests, these trees, these plants, 

n' existent que pour moi, ou plutot que pour les 

■— exist only for me, or rather only for the 

malheureux dont je vais soulager les besoins. 

unfortunate of-whom I go to-lessen the wants. 

Quelquefois je me fais des illusions pour 

Sometimes I ^to-myself ^create [of-the] illusions in-order 

accroitre mes jouissances. II me semble alors que 

to-increase my enjoyments. It *to-me 1 seems then that 

la terre porte son attention jusqu' a la delicatesse, et 

the earth carries its attention even to [the] delicacy, and 

que les fruits sont annonces par les fleurs, comme 

that the fruits are announced by the flowers, as 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 159 

parmi nous les bienfaits doivent 1' etre par les 

among us [the] benefits ought so to-be by [the] 

graces. 

kindness. 

"Une emulation sans rivalite forme les liens qui 

An emulation without rivalry forms the ties which 

m' unissent avec mes voisins. lis viennent souvent 

£me *unite with my neighbours. They ^come *often 

se ranger autour de cette table, qui ne fut 

^themselves ito-range around — this table, which — was 

jamais entouree que de mes amis. La confiance et 

never surrounded but by my friends. [The] confidence and 

la franchise regnent dans nos entretiens. Nous 

[the] frankness reign in our conversations. We 

nous communiquons nos decouvertes; car, bien 

*to-one-another ^communicate our discoveries ; for, very 

differents des autres artistes qui ont des secrets. 

different from-[the] other artists who have [of-the] secrets, 

chacun de nous est aussi jaloux de s' instruire que 

every-one of us is as desirous to ^himself instruct as 

d' instruire les autres." 

to instruct the others. 

S' adressant ensuite a quelques habitants d' 

^Himself ^addressing afterwards to some inhabitants of 

Athenes qui venaient-d'arriver, il ajoutait : " Vous 

Athens who had-just-arrived, he added: You 

croyez etre libres dans 1' enceinte de vos murs ; 

think to-be free within the enclosure of your walls ; 

mais cette independance que les lois vous accordent, 

but that independence Which the laws ayou x grant, 

la tyrannie de la societe vous la ravit sans 

the tyranny of [the] society afrom-you *it itakes-saway without 

pitie : des charges a briguer et a remplir, des 

pity: [of-the] offices to solicit and to fill, [of-the] 

hommes puissants a menager, des noirceurs a prevoir 

a men ^powerful to manage, [of-the] atrocities to foresee 

et a eviter, des devoirs de bienseance plus rigoureux 

and to avoid, [of-the] duties of decorum more rigorous 

que ceux de la nature ; une contrainte continue lie dans 

than those of [the] nature; a ^constraint 'continual in 



160 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

P habillement, dans la demarche, dans les actions, 

the dress, in the gait, in the actions, 

dans les paroles ; le poids insupportable de F oisivete, 

in the words ; the ^weight ^insupportable of [the] idleness, 

les lentes persecutions des importuns : il n' est 

the lingering persecutions of-the importunate: there snot lis 

aucune sorte d' esclavage qui ne vous tienne 

any sort of enslavement that *not 4 you *would-3keep 

enchaines dans ses fers. 

bound in its fetters. 

" Vos fetes sont si magnifiques ! et les-notres si 

Your festivities are so magnificent ! and ours so 

gaies ! vos plaisirs si superficiels et si passagers ! 

merry ! your pleasures so superficial and so transient ! 

les-notres si vrais et si constants ! les dignites de la 

ours so true and so constant ! the dignities of the 

republique imposent-elles des fonctions plus nobles 

republic, do-^impose Uhey [of-the] functions more noble 

que V exercice d' un art sans lequel P industrie et 

than the practice of an art without which [the] industry and 

le commerce tomberaient en decadence 1 

[the] commerce would-fall into ruin? 

"Avez-vous jamais respire dans vos riches 

Have you ever breathed in your rich 

appartements la fraicheur de cet air qui se joue sous 

apartments the coolness of this air which itself ^sports under 

cette voute de verdure? et vos repas, quelquefois si 

this vault of verdure? and your repasts, sometimes so 

somptueux, valent - ils ces jattes de lait qu' on 

sumptuous, are-^vvorth uhey these bowls of milk that they 

vient-de-traire, et ces fruits delicieux que nous avons 

have-just-milked, and these ^fruits ^delicious which we have 

cueillis de nos mains ? Et quel gout ne preterit pas 

plucked with our hands? And what savour — lend not 

a nos aliments, des travaux qu' il est si doux d' 

to our food, [of-the] labours which it is so sweet to 

entreprendre, meme dans les glaces de P hiver et dans 

undertake, even in the ices of the winter and in 

les chaleurs de 1' ete, dont il est si doux de 

the heats of the summer, from- which it is so sweet to 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 161 

se delasser, tantot dans 1' epaisseur des bois, 

aoneself ^refresh, sometimes in the thickness of-the woods, 

au souffle des zephyrs, sur un gazon qui invite 

at-the breath of-the zephyrs, on a turf that invites 

au sommeil, tantot aupres d' une flamme etincelante, 

to-[the] sleep, sometimes near — a ablaze ^sparkling, 

nourrie par des troncs d' arbres que je tire de 

fed by [of-the] trunks of trees which I draw from 

mon domaine, au milieu de ma femme et de mes 

my estate, in-the midst of my wife and of my 

enfants, objets toujours nouveaux de 1' amour le plus 

children, objects ever new of [the] love the most 

tendre ; au mepris de ces vents impetueux qui 

tender; in-[the] spite of those swinds Mmpetuous which 

grondent autour de ma retraite, sans en troubler la 

roar around — my retreat, without *of-it ^disturbing athe 

tranquillite ! 

aquietness ! 

"Ah! si le bonheur n' est que la sante de T 

Ah! if [the] happiness — is only the health of the 

ame, ne doit - on pas le trouver dans les lieux ou 

soul, — ought one not *it Uo-find in the places where 

regne une juste proportion entre les besoins et les 

reigns a just proportion between the wants and the 

desirs, ou le mouvement est toujours suivi du 

desires, where [the] motion is always followed by-[the} 

repos, et 1' interet toujours accompagne du 

repose, and [the] interest always accompanied by-[the] 

calme ?" 

calm? BARTHELEMY. 



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LXVIL 

Le Monde. 

The World. 

Rien n' est constant dans le monde, ni les 

Nothing — is constant in the world, neither the 

fortunes les-plus florissantes, ni les amities les-plus 

^fortunes *most ^flourishing, nor the saffections *most 

vives, ni les faveurs les-plus enviees. On y voit 

^lively, nor the sfavours »most envied. We there see 

une sagesse souveraine qui se plait, ce semtile, a 

a ^wisdom ^sovereign that itself ^delights, it seems, to 

se-jouer des hommes en les elevant les-uns sur 

sport with-[the] men in ^them ^raising some over 

les ruines des autres, en degradant ceux qui etaient 

the ruins of-[the] others, in degrading those who were 

au haut de la roue, pour y faire monter 

at-the height of the wheel, in-order sto-it Uo-cause 3 to-mount 

ceux qui rampaient il-n'y-a* qu' un moment devant 

those who were-creeping *ago >but *a ^moment before 

eux; en produisant tous-les-jours de nouveaux heros 

them; in producing every-day [of] new heroes 

sur le theatre, et faisant eclipser ceux qui auparavant 

on the theatre, and causing to-be-eclipsed those who before 

y jouaient un role si brillant ; en donnant 

»there *were-performing a character so brilliant; in presenting 

sans-cesse de nouvelles scenes a 1' univers. Les 

incessantly [of] new scenes to the universe. [The] 

hommes passent toute leur vie dans des agitations, 

men spend all their life in [of-the] agitations, 



* II n' y a. Literally, it not there has. This impersonal verb 
indicates time, space and number ; as : 11 y a trente ans qu 1 il est 
mort, he has been dead these thirty years ; il y a loin d* ici, it is a 
great way from here. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 163 

des projets et des mesures ; toujours attentifs a 

[of-the] projects and [of-the] measures: always anxious to 

se surprendre, ou a eviter d' etre surpris ; 

aone-anotner ^surprise, or to avoid [of] being surprised; 

. toujours empresses et habiles a profiter de la 

alwa)'s eager and skilful to take-advantage of the 

retraite, de la disgrace ou de la mort de leurs 

retreat, of the disgrace or of the death of their 

concurrents, et a se faire de ces grandes 

competitors, and to *to-themselves create from those great 

lemons de mepris du monde, de nouveaux motifs d* 

examples of contempt of-the world, [of] new motives of 

ambition et de cupidite ; toujours occupes ou de 

ambition and of cupidity; always occupied either with- 

leurs craintes ou de leurs esperances ; toujours inquiets 

their fears or with their hopes; always restless 

ou sur le present ou sur 1' avenir; jamais tranquilles ; 

either on the present or on the future; never quiet; 

travaillant tous pour le repos, et s' en 

^labouring »all for [the] repose, and sthemselves sfrom-ia 

eloignant toujours plus. 

^distancing ^always «more. 

La vanite, 1' ambition, la vengeance, le 

[The] vanity, [the] ambition, [the] vengeance, [the] 

luxe, la volupte, le desir insatiable d' 

extravagance, [the] voluptuousness* the ^desire ^insatiable to 

accumuler, voila les vertus que le monde connait 

accumulate, these-are the virtues which the world knows 

et estime ; voila les vertus auxquelles il porte ses 

and esteems; these-are the virtues to-which it brings its 

partisans ! La droiture y passe pour simplicite : 

partisans! [The] uprightness there passes for simplicity: 

etre double et dissimule, c' est un merite qui honore, 

to-be double and dissembling, it is a merit which honours. 

Toutes ses societes sont empoisonnees par le defaut 

All its societies are poisoned through the want 

de sincerite ; la parole n' y est plus 1' interprete 

of sincerity; [the] speech s n o Uhere 2j s more the interpreter 

du coeur, elle n' en est que le masque qui le 
ci'-the heart, it -— sof-it *is ^but sthe 4 rnask which 9 it 



164 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

cache et qui le deguise ; les entretiens n' y sont 

»conceals and which 2 it ^disguises; [the] conversations — there are 

que des mensonges affectes sous les dehors de 1 

but [of-the] falsehoods affected under the exterior of [tk. 

amitie et de la politesse. On se 

friendship and of [the] politeness. People son-each-other 

prodigue a-Penvi les louanges et les adulations, et 

slavish lemulously [the] praises and [the] adulations, and 

on porte dans le coeur la haine, la jalousie et 

they carry in their heart [the] hatred, [the] jealousy and 

le mepris de ceux qu' on loue. Loin de 

[the] contempt for those whom they praise. Far from 

se regarder tous comme ne faisant entre eux 

^themselves ^considering all as — forming among them 

qu' une seule famille dont les interets doivent etre 

but a single family aof-whom *the sinterests ought to-be 

communs, il semble que les hommes ne se Kent 

common, it seems that [the] men — themselves *join 

ensemble que pour se tromper mutuellement et 

together but to ^each-other ^deceive mutually and 

se donner le change. L' interet le plus vil 

^each-other Uo-give the wrong-scent. [The] interest the most vile 

arme le frere contre le frere, 1' ami contre 1' 

arms the brother against the brother, the friend against the 

ami, rompt tous les liens du sang et de 1' amitie ; 

friend, breaks all the ties of-[the] blood and of [the] friendship; 

et c' est un motif si bas qui decide de nos haines 

and it is a motive so base which decides [of] our enmities 

et de nos amours. Les besoins et les malheurs du 

and [of] our likings. The wants and the misfortunes of-our 

prochain ne trouvent que de 1' indifference et de 

neighbour — find only [of] [the] indifference and [of] 

la durete meme dans les coeurs, lorsqu' on peut 

[the] ^rudeness ieven in [the] our hearts, when we can 

le negliger sans rien perdre, ou an qu' on ne 

shim ^neglect without aany-thing »Josing, or when we — 

gagne rien a le secourir. 

gain nothing by shim *assisting. 

Si nous connaissions le fond et 1' interieur du 

If we knew the depth and the interior of-the 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 165 

monde; si nous pouvions entrer dans le detail secret 

world; if we were-able to-enter into the ^detail ^secret 

de ses soucis et de ses noires inquietudes; si nous 

of its cares and of its black anxieties; if we 

pouvions percer cette premiere ecorce qui n' ofTre 

were-able to-pierce that first rind which — presents 

aux yeux que joie, que plaisirs, que pompe et 

to-the eyes only joy, only pleasures, only pomp and 

magnificence, que nous le trouverions different de 

magnificence, how *we sit ashould-*find ^different from 

ce-qu' il parait! Nous n' y verrions que des 

what it appears! We — there should-see only [of-the] 

malheureux : le pere divise d' avec 1' enfant, 1' 

unhappy beings: the father divided from [with] the child, the 

epoux d' avec 1' epouse ; le secret des families ne 

husband from [with] the wife; the secrecy of-[the] families — 

cache aux yeux du public que des antipathies, 

conceals from-the eyes of-the public only [of-the] antipathies, 

des jalousies, des murmures, des dissensions 

[of-the] jealousies, [of-the] murmurs, [of-the] dissensions 

eternelies. Les amities y sont troublees par les 

»eternal. The affections there are disturbed by [the] 

soup^ons, par les interets, par les caprices ; les 

suspicions, by [the] interests, by [the] caprices; the 

liaisons les-plus etroites y sont refroidies par Y 

^connexions imost ^close there are cooled by [the] 

inconstance ; les engagements les-plus tendres y 

inconstancy; the sengagements imost ^tender there 

finissent par la haine et la perfidie ; les fortunes 

end through [the] hatred and [the] perfidy; the sfortunes 

les-plus brillantes y perdent tout leur agrement par 

imost Splendid there lose all their agreeableness through 

les assujettissements qu' elles exigent; les places 

the slavish-attentions which they require ; the aposts 

les-plus honorables n' y font sentir que le chagrin 

*most ^honourable — there cause to-be-felt only the chagrin 

de ne pouvoir monter plus-haut : chacun s' y plaint 

of not being-able to-mount higher ; every-one there complains 

de sa destinee ; les plus eleves n' y sont pas les 

of his destiny; the most elevated — there are not the 



166 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

plus heureux ; ils montent par leur rang et par leur 

most happy; they ascend by their rank and by their 

fortune jusqu' au-dessus des nues ; on les perd de 

fortune even above [of]-the clouds; we athem *lose afrom 

vue, si haut ils sont places; ils paraissent au-dessus 

sight, so high sthey *are placed ; they appear above 

du reste des hommes par les hommages qu r 

[of]- the rest of-[the] men through the homage that 

on leur rend, par 1' eclat qui les 

people sthem ^render, through the splendour which athem 

environne, par les graces qu' ils distribuent, par 

isurrounds, through the favours which they distribute, through 

les adulations eternelles dont la prosperite et la 

the adulations ^eternal with-which [the] prosperity and [the] 

puissance sont toujours accompagnees ; et, par la 

power are always accompanied; and, through the 

satiete meme des plaisirs, et par la gene des 

asatiety *very of-[the] pleasures, and through the restraint of-[the] 

assujettissernents et des bienseances, et par la 

slavish-attentions and of-[the] decorum, and through the 

bizarrerie de leurs desirs, et par V amertume de 

caprice of their desires, and through the bitterness of 

leurs jalousies, et par la bassesse qu' ils 

their jealousies, and through the baseness which they 

emploient pour plaire au maitre, et par les 

employ in-order to-please [to]-the master, and through the 

degouts qu' ils en essuient, ils sont plus bas 

disgusts which they afrom-him *endure, they are more base 

que le peuple, et plus malheureux que lui. 

than the people, and more unhappy than they. 

MASSILLON. 



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LXVIIL 

! La Maison de Jean-Jacques a la Campagne, 

The House of John James in the Country, 

s' il etait Riche. 

if he was Rich. 

Je n 9 irais pas me batir une ville en 

I — would-sgo ^not *myself no-build a city in the 

campagne, et mettre an fond d' une province les 

country, and place at-the bottom of a province the 

Tuileries devant mon appartement Sur le penchant 

Tuileries before my apartment. On the declivity 

de quelque agreable colline bien ombragee, j' aurais 

of some agreeable hill well shaded, I would-have 

une petite maison rustique, une maison blanche avec 

a small *house ^rustic, a ^house 'white with 

des contrevents verts; et, quoiqu 9 une couverture de 

[of-the] s-shutters *green; and, although a roof of 

chaume soit am en toute saison la meilleure, je prefererais 

thatch is in every season the best, I should-prefer 

infiniment, non la triste ardoise, mais la tuile, parce-qu' 

exceedingly, not the dull slate, but the tile, because 

^elle a 1' air plus-propre et plus gai que le chaume, 

it has [the] a look neater and more gay than the thatch, 

an qu' on ne couvre pas autrement les maisons dans 

because people - do-*roof *not ^otherwise nhe ^houses in 

mon pays, et que cela me rappellerait un peu 

my country, and because it *to-me *would-recall a little 

V heureux temps de ma jeunesse, P aurais pour 

the happy time of my youth. I would-have for a 

cour une basse-cour, et pour ecurie une etable avec 

\ court a poultry-yard, and for equerry a stable with 

\ des vaches, pour avoir du laitage que j' aime 

[of-the] cows, in-order to-have [of-the] milk-food which I like 

beaucoup. J' aurais un potager pour jardin, et 

much. I would-have a kitchen-garden for garden, and 



168 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

pour pare un joli verger. Les fruits, a la discretion 

for park a fine orchard. The fruits, at the discretion 

des promeneurs, ne seraient ni comptes ni 

of-the promenaders, — should-be neither counted nor 

cueillis par mon jardinier, et mon avare magnificeriGe 

gathered by my gardener, and my avaricious magnificence 

n' etalerait point aux yeux des espaliers superbes; 

— should-^display ^not to-the eyes [of-the] ^espaliers isuperb 

auxquels a-peine on osat toucher. Or cette 

[toj-which 3 S carcely *one smight-*dare to-touch. Now this 

petite prodigalite serait peu couteuse, parce-que f 

petty prodigality would-be little costly, besause I 

aurais choisi mon asyle dans quelque province 

would-have chosen my retreat in some ^province 

eloignee ou F on voit peu d' argent et beaucoup 

iremote where — people see little — money and many 

de denrees, et ou regnent F abondance et la 

— provisions, and where reign [the] abundance and [the] 

pauvrete* 

poverty. 

La, je rassemblerais une societe plus choisie que 

There, I would- assemble a society more select than* 

nombreuse d' amis aimant le plaisir, et s' y 

numerous of friends loving [the] pleasure, and [toj-aifc. 

connaissant, de femmes qui pussent sortir de leu? 

^understanding, of women who could come-out of their 

fauteuil et se preter aux jeux champetres* 

arm-chair and ^themselves Uend to-the Sports irural, 

prendre quelquefois, au-lieu de la navette et des cartes* 

take sometimes, instead of the shuttle, and of-the cards, 

la ligne, les gluaux, le rateau des faneuses et k 

the line, the lime-twigs, the rake of-the hay-makers and the 

panier des vendangeurs* La, tous les airs de la 

basket of-the vintagers. There, all the manners of the 1 

ville seraient oublies ; et, devenus villageois au 

city should-be forgotten ; and, become villagers at-tho 

village, nous nous trouverions livres a des 

village, we ^ourselves *should-find given-up to [of-thejj 

foules d' amusements divers, qui ne nous 

multiplicities of ^amusements ^diverse, which — «us 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 169 

donneraient chaque soir que F embarras du choix 

nvould-give every evening only the trouble of-[the] choice 

pour le lendemain. L' exercice et la vie active 

for the following-day. The exercise and the slife ^active 

nous feraient un nouvel estomac et de nouveaux 

no-us twould-give a new stomach and [of] new 

gouts. Tous nos repas seraient des festins, 

relishes. AH our repasts would-be [of-the] entertainments, 

ou 1' abondance pi ai rait plus que la delicatesse. 

where the abundance would-please more than the delicacy. 

La gaite, les travaux rustiques, les folatres 

[The] mirth, [the] labours iruraL, [the] lively 

jeux, sont les premiers cuisiniers du monde, et les 

sports, are the first cooks in-the world, and [the] 

ragouts nris sont bien ridicules a des gens en 

^ragouts ^delicate are very ridiculous to [of-the] persons in 

haleine depuis le lever du soleih Le service 

exercise from the rising of-the sun. The service 

n' aurait pas plus d' ordre que d' elegance; la 

— would-have not more — order than — elegance ; the 

salle-a-manger serait partout, dans le jardin, dans 

dining-room would-be everywhere, in the garden, in 

un bateau, sous un arbre, quelquefois au-loin pres 

a boat, under a tree, sometimes at-a-distance near 

d' une source vive, sur 1' herbe verdoyante et 

— a ^fountain ^living, on the grass green and 

fraicbe, sous des touffes d' aulnes et de 

fresh, under [of-the] bushes of alder-trees and of 

coudriers : une longue procession de gais convives 

filbert-trees: a long procession of merry guests 

porterait en chantant 1' appret du festin ; 

would-bring in singing the preparation for-the entertainment : 

on aurait le gazon pour table et pour chaises ; 

we would-have the turf for table and for chairs ; 

les bords de la fontaine serviraient de buffet, et 

the borders of the fountain would-serve for sideboard, ana 

le dessert pendrait aux arbres. Les mets seraient 

4he dessert would-hang to-the trees. The dishes would-be 

servis sans ordre, V appetit dispenserait des 

eerved without order, the appetite would-dispense with-[the] 



170 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

fa^ons ; chacun, se preferant ouvertement a tout 

ceremonies ; every-one, ^himself ^preferring openly to any 

autre, trouverait bon que tout autre se preferat 

other, would-find it good that every other ^himself *should-prefer 

de-meme a lui : de cette famiKarite cordiale et 

in-like-manner to him : from that 4familiarity ^hearty sand 

moderee, naitrait, sans grossierete, sans faussete, 

^moderate, would-arise, without rudeness, without falseness, 

sans contrainte, un conffit badin, plus charmant 

without constraint, a Contention ^playful, more charming a 

cent fois que la politesse, et plus fait pour lier 

hundred times than [the] politeness, and more formed to unite 

les coeurs. Point d' importuns laquais epiant nos 

[the] hearts. No — importunate valets watching our 

discours, critiquant tout-bas nos maintiens, comptant 

discourses, criticising whimperingly our countenances, counting 

nos morceaux d' un oeil avide, s' amusant a 

our morsels with a *eye ^greedy, ^themselves ^amusing by 

nous faire attendre a boire, et murmurant 

aus *making wait for something to drink, and murmuring 

d' un trop long diner. Nous serions nos valets* pour 

at sa Uoo along dinner. We wouid-be our valets, in-order 

etre nos maitres; chacun serait servi par tous; le 

to-be our masters; each-one would-be served by all; the 

temps passerait sans le compter, le repas serait 

time would-pass-away without *it Counting, the repast would-be 

le repos, et durerait autant que 1' ardeur du jour* 

[the] repose, and would-last as-long as the heat of-the day. 

S' il passait pres de nous quelque paysan retournant 

If there passed near — us some peasant returning 

au travail, ses outils sur 1' epaule, je lui 

to-[theJ labour, his tools on his shoulder, I *for-him 

rejouirais le coeur par quelques bons propos, par 

iwou ld-rejoice *his sheart by some kind words, by 

quelques coups de bon vin qui lui feraient 

some draughts of good wine which »him *would-make 

porter plus gaiement sa misere ; et moi, j' aurais 

bear more gayly his misery; and I, I would-have 



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aussi le plaisir de me sentir emouvoir et de me 

also the pleasure of ^myself ^feeling moved and ofno-myself 

dire en secret : " Je suis encore homme." 

: saying in secret: I am still a man. 

Si quelque fete champetre rassemblait les 

If some ^festivity *rural assembled the 

habitants du lieu, j' y serais des premiers avec 

inhabitants of-the place, I ^there iwould-be of-the first with 

ma troupe. Si quelques manages, plus benis du 

my company. If any marriages, more blessed of-[the] 

ciel que ceux des villes, se-faisaient dans mon 

heaven than those of-the cities, were-made in my 

voisinage, on saurait que j' aime la joie, et 

neighbourhood, people should-know that I love [the] joy, and 

j' y serais invite. Je porterais a ces bonnes 

I no-them ishould-be ^invited. I would-bring to those good 

gens quelques dons simples comme eux, qui 

people some gifts simple as they, which 

contribueraient a la fete, et j' y trouverais en 

would-contribute to the feast, and I ain-them *would-find in 

echange des biens d' un prix inestimable, des 

exchange [of-the] benefits of an lvalue ^inestimable, [of-the] 

biens si peu connus de mes egaux, la franchise et 

benefits so little known by my equals, [the] frankness and 

le vrai plaisir. Je souperais gaiement au bout de 

[the] real pleasure. I would-sup gayly at-the end of 

leur longue table, j' y ferais chorus au refrain 

their long table, I there would-make chorus to-the burthen 

d' une vieille chanson rustique, et je danserais dans 

of an old »song ^rustic, and I would-dance in 

leur grange, de meilleur coeur qu' au bal de 1' 

their bam, with a better heart than at-the ball of the 

opera, 

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LXIX. 



Flatterie^ Deguisement de la Verite. 

Flattery, Disguise of the Truth. 

Si nous voulons nous juger nous-memes, et entrer 

If we 2 W ish ^ourselves sto-judge ^ourselves, and to-enter 

dans le detail de nos devoirs, de nos liaisons, de 

into the detail of our duties, of our connexions, of 

nos entretiens, nous verrons que tous nos discours et 

our conversations, we shall-see that all our discourses and 

toutes nos demarches ne sont que des adoucissements 

all our proceedings — are but [of-the] softenings 

de la verite, et des temperaments pour la reconcilier 

of the truth, and [of-the] modifications to *\t ^reconcile r 

avec les prejuges ou les passions de ceux avec qui 

with the prejudices or the passions of those with whom 

nous avons a vivre. Nous le leur montrons jamais la 

we have to live. We — sthem ^show *never the 

verite que par les endroits ou elle peut leur plaire; 

truth but by [the] passages where it may ^them iplease; 

nous trouvons toujours un beau cote dans leurs vices 

we find always a fair side in their »vices 

les-plus deplorables ; et, comme toutes les passions 

*most lamentable ; and, as all the passions 

ressemblent toujours a quelque vertu, nous ne 

^bear-resemblance ^always to some virtue, we — 

manquons jamais de nous sauver a la faveur de 

sfail *never to ^ourselves isave by the means of 

cette ressemblance. 

that resemblance. 

Ainsi tous-les-jours, devant un ambitieux, nous 

Thus every-day, before an ambitious man, we 

parlons de 1' amour de la gloire et du desir de 

speak of the love of [the] glory and of-the desire of 

parvenir, comme des seuls penchants qui font 

reaching-preferment, as [of]-the only propensities that make 



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les grands hommes ; nous flattens son orgueil, nous 

[the] great men ; we flatter his pride, we 

allumons ses desirs par des esperances et par 

kindle his desires by [of- the] hopes and by 

des predictions flatteuses et chimeriques ; nous 

[of-the] 4 pre dictions iflattering ^and sfanciful; we 

nourrissons 1' erreur de son imagination en lui 

nourish the error of his imagination in ato-him 

rapprochant des fantomes dont il se-repait 

»bringing-nearer [of-the] chimeras with-whieh he delights 

sans-cesse lui-meme. Nous osons peut-etre en general 

^incessantly ihimself. We dare perhaps in general 

plaindre les hommes de tant s' agiter 

to-pity [the] men for 3 S o-much ^themselves ^agitating 

pour des choses que le hasard distribue, et que 

for [of-the] objects which [the] chance distributes, and which 

la mort va nous ravir demain ; mais nous 

[the] death is-going *from-us no-snatch to-morrow ; but we 

n' osons blamer 1' insense qui sacrifie a cette fumee 

^not *dare blame the fool who sacrifices to that smoke 

son repos, sa vie et sa conscience. Devant un 

his repose, his life and his conscience. Before a 

vindicatif, nous justifions son ressentiment et sa 

revengeful man, we justify his resentment and his 

colere; nous adoucissons son crime dans son esprit, en 

anger; we soften his crime in his mind, in 

autorisant la justice de ses plaintes ; nous menageons 

authorising the justice of his complaints; we manage 

sa passion, en exagerant le tort de son ennemi : nous 

his passion, in magnifying the wrong of his enemy : we 

osons peut-etre dire qu' il - faut pardormer, mais nous 

dare perhaps to-say that it is-meet to-pardon, but we 

n' osons pas ajouter que le premier degre du 

— dare not to-add that the first step of-the 

pardon, c' est de ne plus parler de 1' injure qu' 

forgiveness, [it] is to *no 3 more ispeak of the offence that 

on a recue. 

one has received. 

Devant un courtisan mecontent de sa fortune, et 

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174 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

jaloux de celle des autres, nous lui montrons ses 

jealous of that of-the others, we shim ishow his 

concurrents par les endroits les-moins favorables, 

competitors by the asides *least ^favourable, 

nous jetons habile ment un nuage sur leur merite et sur 

we cast skilfully a cloud over their merit and over 

leur gloire, de peur qu' elle ne blesse les yeux jaloux 

their glory, for fear that it — may-hurt the aeyes \jealous 

de celui qui nous ecoute. Nous diminuons, nous 

of him who *us Uistens-to. We diminish, we 

obscurcissons 1' eclat de leurs talents et de leurs 

obscure the splendour of their talents and of their 

services ; et, par nos menage rnents injustes, nous 

services; and, by our ^managements ^unjust, we 

aigrissons la passion, nous 1' aidons a s' aveugler, 

exasperate the passion, we shim *help to ^himself iblind, 

et a regarder comme des honneurs qu' on lui 

and to consider as [of-the] honours that one ^from-him 

ravit tous ceux qu' on repand sur ses freres. 

nakes-away all those that one bestows upon his brethren. 

Glue dirai - je 1 devant un prodigue, ses profusions ne 

What ishall-3say ^i? before a prodigal, his extravagances *no 

sont plus dans notre bouche qu' un air de generosite et 

iare longer in our mouth but an air of generosity and 

de magnificence ; devant un avare, sa durete et sa 

of magnificence; before a miser, his hardness and his 

mesquinerie ne sont plus qu' une sage moderation, et 

stinginess sno tare longer but a wise moderation, and 

une bonne conduite domestique ; devant un grand, ses 

a good ^management ^domestic; before a great man, his 

prejuges et ses erreurs trouvent toujours en nous des 

prejudices and his errors find always in us [of-the] 

apologies toutes pretes ; on respecte ses passions comme 

apologies all ready; we respect his passions as-well-as 

son autorite, et ses prejuges deviennent toujours 

his authority, and his prejudices ^become ialways 

les-notres. Enfin nous empruntons les erreurs de tous 

ours. In-fine we borrow the errors of all 

ceux avec qui nous vivons ; nous nous transformons 

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en eux-memes ; notre grande etude est de connaitre leurs 

into them - selves ; our great study is to know their 

faiblesses pour nous les approprier: nous n' 

foibles in-order no-ourselves ^them no-appropriate: we — 

avons point de langage a-nous, nous parlons toujours 

have no — language of-our-own, we speak always 

le langage des autres ; nos discours ne sont qu' une 

the language of-[the] others; our discourses — are but a 

repetition de leurs prejuges ; et cet indigne avilissement 

repetition of their prejudices; and that unworthy abasement 

de la verite, nous 1' appelons la science du monde, 

of the truth, we 2jt icali the science of-the world, 

la prudence qui sait prendre son parti, le grand art 

the prudence that knows kow to-take its course, the great art 



de reussir et de plaire. 

of prospering and of pleasing. 



MASSILLON. 



LXX. 

Le Present et V Avenir. 

The Present and the Future, 



Les hommes passent comme les fleurs qui 

[The] men pass-away like the flowers which 

s'epanouissent le matin, et qui le soir sont 

bloom in the morning, and which in the evening are 

fletries et foulees aux-pieds. Les generations des 

faded and trampled by- the feet. The generations of-[the] 

hommes s'ecoulent comme les ondes d' un fleuve 

men flow-away like the waves of a driver 

rapide ; rien ne pent arreter le temps, qui entraine 

irapid: nothing — can stop [the] time, which carries 

apres lui tout ce qui parait le plus immobile. 

after it all that which seems the most immovable. 

Toi-meme, 6 mon tils, mon cher fils, toi-meme qui 

Thou - thyself, O my son, my dear son, thou-thyself who 

jouis maintenant d' une jeunesse si vive et si 

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176 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

feconde en plaisirs, souviens - toi que ce bel age 

fertile in pleasures, remember thou that this delightful age 

n' est qu' une fleur qui sera presque aussitot sechee 

— is but a flower which wiil-be ^almost sas-soon ^withered 

qu' eclose : tu te verras changer insensiblement ; 

as blown: thou ^thyself ^halt-see alter insensibly; 

les graces riantes, les doux plaisirs qui t' 

the graces ^smiling, the sweet pleasures which othee 

accompagnent, la force, la sante, la joie* 

^accompany, [the] strength, [the] health, [the] joy, 

s'evanouiront comrae un beau songe ; il ne t' 

will-vanish like a pleasant dream; there — sto-thee 

en restera qu' un triste souvenir; la vieillesse 

*of-them iwill-remain but a sad remembrance ; [the] old-age 

languissante et ennemie des plaisirs viendra rider 

languid and hostile to-the pleasures will-come to-wrinkle 

ton visage, courber ton corps, affaiblir tes membres, 

thy visage, to-bend thy body, to-weaken thy limbs, 

faire tarir dans ton cceur la source de la joie, te 

to-cause to-dry-up in thy heart the source of [the] joy, Hhee 

degouter du present, te faire craindre 1' avenir, 

*to-disgust with-the present, nhee Uo-cause to-fear the future, 

te rendre insensible a tout, excepte a la douieur. 

*thee ito-render insensible to every-thing except to [the] pain. 

Ce temps te parait eloigne. Helas! tu te 

That time ato-thee 'appears distant. Alas ! thou ^thyself 

trompes, mon fils ; il se-hate, le voila qui arrive : 

*deceivest, my son ; it hastens, sjt ibehold that comes : 

ce qui vient avec tant de rapidite n' est pas loin de 

that which comes with so-much — rapidity — is not far from 

toi, et le present qui s'enfuit est deja bien loin, 

thee, and the present which flees-away is already very far-off, 

puisqu' il s'aneantit dans le moment ou nous 

since it is-annihilated in the moment in-which we 

parlons, et ne peut plus se-rapprocher. Ne compte 

speak, and a no *can more approach. — *Rely 

done jamais, mon fils, sur le present; mais soutiens- 

nhen inever, my son, on the present; but sustain 

toi dans le sentier rude et apre de la vertu, par 

thyself in the 4 path *rough sand 3 hard of [the] virtue, by 



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la vue de 1' avenir. Prepare - toi, par des moeurs 

the view of the future. Prepare thyself by [of-the] ^manners 

pures et par 1' amour de ]a justice, une place dans 

ipure and by the love of [the] justice, a place in 

1' heureux sejour de la paix. r , 

the happy abode of [the] peace. FENELON. 



LXXL 

Le Duel. 

[The] Duelling. 

Gardez - vous de confondre le nom sacre de V 

Preserve yourselves from confounding the ^name *sacred of [the] 

honneur avec ce prejuge feroce qui met toutes les 

honour with that ^prejudice * ferocious which places all the 

vertus a la pointe d' une epee, et n' est propre qu' a 

virtues at the point of a sword, and — is fit only to 

faire de braves scelerats. 

make [of] courageous villains. 

En quoi consiste ce prejuge ? Dans Y opinion 

In what consists that prejudice ? In the sopinion 

la-plus extravagante et ia-plus barbare qui entra 

imost Extravagant 3 and *most sbarbarous that Entered 

jamais dans 1' esprit lmmain, savoir, que tous les 

lever into the ^mind ihuman, namely, that all the 

devoirs de la societe sont supplees par la bravoure ; 

duties of [the] society are made-up by [the] bravery; 

qu' un homme n' est plus fourbe, fripon, calomniateur ; 

that a man ^no *is longer a cheat, rogue, slanderer ; 

qu' il est civil, humain, poli, quand il sait se-battre ; 

that he is civil, humane, polite, when he knows how to-right; 

1 que le mensonge se-change en verite, que le vol 

1 that [the] falsehood changes into truth, that [the] theft 

devient legitime, la perfidie honnete, 1' infidelite 

becomes lawful, [the] perfidy honest, [the] infidelity 

\ louable, sitot qu' on soutient tout cela le fer a 

praiseworthy, as-soon as a-man maintains all that [the] sword in 

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178 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

la main; qu' un affront est toujours bien repare par 

[the] hand; that an outrage is always well redressed by 

un coup d' epee, et qu' on n' a jamais 

a stroke of the sword, and that one — [has] is never in the 

tort avec un homme, pourvu qu' on le tue. Il-y-a, 

wrong with a man, provided that one ^him skills. There-is, 

je 1' avoue, une autre sorte d' affaire ou la 

I ait iconfess, an other sort of affair in-which [the] 

gentillesse se mele a la cruaute, et ou 1' on ne 

gentility ^itself ^joins to [the] cruelty, and in-which — - one — 

tue les gens que par hasard ; c' est celle ou 1' on 

kills [the] people only by chance; it is that in-which — one 

se-bat au premier sang! Au premier sang! grand 

fights at-the first blood ! At-the first blood ! great 

Dieu ! Et qu' en veux - tu faire de ce sang, bete 

God! And what [of it] wishest thou to-do with that blood, *beast 

feroce ? le veux - tu boire ? 

J-ferocious? sit iwishest athou sto-^drink? 

Les plus-vai Hants hommes de 1' antiquite songerent- 

The bravest men of [the] antiquity, thought 

ils jamais a venger leurs injures personnelles par les 

they ever to avenge their injuries ^personal by [the] 

combats particuliers ? Cesar envoya - t - il un cartel 

^combats ^private? CaRsar, sent — he a challenge 

a Caton, ou Pompee a Cesar, pour tant d' affronts 

to Cato, or Pompey to Caesar, for so-many — ^outrages 

reciproques? Et le plus-grand capitaine de la Grece 

^reciprocal? And the greatest captain of [the] Greece, 

fut - il deshonore pour s' etre laisse menacer 

was he disgraced for shimself ^having sallowed to-be-threatened 

d' un baton? D' autres temps, d' autres moeurs, je 

with a stick? [Of] other times, [of] other manners, I 

le sais ; mais n' y-en-a-t-il que de bonnes, et n' 

ait iknow; but — iare-athere-«ones eonly [of] 3g od, and *not 

oserait - on s'enquerir si les mceurs d' un temps 

tshould-*dare sa-*man to-inquire whether the manners of a time 

sont celles qu' exige le solide honneur? Non, cet 

are those which ^requires [the] l solid ^honour? No, that 

honneur n' est point variable, il ne depend ni des 

honour — is not variable, it — proceeds neither from-[tie] 



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temps, ni des lieux, ni des prejuges ; il ne pent 

limes, nor from-[the] places, nor frora-[the] prejudices; it — can 

ni passer, ni renaitre ; il a sa source eternelle dans 

neither pass-away, nor grow-again ; it has its Source ^eternal in 

le coeur de 1' homme juste et dans la regie 

the heart of the 2 man ^righteous and in the anile 

inalterable de ses devoirs. Si les peuples les-plus 

'unalterable of his duties. If ^the ^nations most 

eclaires, les-plus braves, les-plus vertueux de la terre, 

enlightened, most brave, most virtuous of the earth, 

n' ont point connu le duel, je dis qu' il n' est point 

— have not known [the] duelling, I say that it — is not 

une institution de P honneur, mais une mode affreuse 

an institution of [the] honour, but a fashion dreadful 

et barbare, digne de sa feroce origine. Reste a 

and barbarous, worthy of its ferocious origin. It remains to 

savoir si, quand il-s'agit de sa vie ou de celle 

be-known whether, when the-question-is of his life or of that 

d' autrui, P honnete homme se regie sur la mode 

of others, the honourable man ^himself ^regulates on the fashion 

et s' il-n'-y-a pas alors plus de vrai courage a la 

and whether there-is not then more of real courage in ait 

braver qu' a la suivre. Glue ferait celui qui s' 

ibraving than in sit ^following. What *would-3do *he who ahimself 

y veut asservir, dans des lieux ou regne un 

*to-it ^wishes ^to-subject, in [of-the] places where 4 prevails *a 

usage contraire? A Messine ou a Naples, il irait 

susage scontrary? At Messina or at Naples, he would-go 

attendre son homme au coin d' une rue, et le 

to-await his man at-the corner of a street, and shim 

poignarder par-derriere. Cela s'appelle etre brave en ce 

istab behind. This is-called being brave in that 

pays - la, et P honneur ne consiste pas a se 

country [there], and [the] honour — consists not in oneself 

faire tuer par son ennemi, mais a le tuer 

^getting killed by one's enemy, but in shim ^killing 

iui-meme. 

himself. 

L' homme droit, dont toute la vie est sans 

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180 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

tache, et qui ne donna jamais aucun signe de lachete, 

blemish, and who — sgave inever any sign of cowardice, 

refusera de souiller sa main d' un homicide, et n' 

will-refuse to sully his hand with a murder, and — 

en sera que plus honore. Tou jours pret a 

*for-it iwill-be 2 nly 3 m0 re «honoured. Always ready to 

servir la patrie, a proteger le faible, a remplir les 

serve the country, to protect the feeble, to discharge *the 

devoirs les-plus dangereux, et a defendre, en toute 

^duties most dangerous, and to defend, in every 

rencontre juste et honnete, ce-qui lui est cher, au 

^encounter ijust sand ahonourable, what ato-him *is adear, at-the 

prix de son sang, il met dans ses demarches cette 

price of his blood, he puts into his proceedings that 

inebranlable fermete qu' on n' a point sans le 

immovable firmness which a-man — has not without [the] 

vrai courage. Dans la securite de sa conscience, il 

real courage. In the security of his conscience, he 

marche la tete levee ; il ne fuit ni ne cherche son 

walks, his head elevated ; he neither shuns nor — seeks his 

ennemi. On voit aisement qu' il craint moins de 

enemy. People see easily that he fears less to 

mourir que de mal faire, et qu' il redoute le crime 

die than to ^evil *do, and that he dreads the crime 

et non le peril. Si les vils prejuges s'elevent un 

and not the peril. If the vile prejudices arise an 

instant contre lui, tous les jours de son honorable 

instant against him, all the days of his honourabre 

vie sont autant de temoins qui les recusent ; et, 

life are so-many — witnesses which athem 'challenge; and, 

dans une conduite si bien liee, on juge d' 

in a conduct so well connected, people pass-judgment from 

une action sur toutes les autres. 

one action on all the others. 

Les hommes si ombrageux et si prompts a 

[The] men so suspicious and so quick to 

provoquer les autres, sont pour, la plupart de 

challenge [the] others, are for the most-part [of] 

malhonnetes gens, qui, de peur qu' on ose 

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leur montrer ouvertement le rnepris qu' on a pour 

*tbem ito-show openly the contempt which he has for 

eux, s' efforcent de couvrir de quelques affaires d' 

them, themselves iforce to cover with some affairs of 

honneur 1' infamie de Jeur vie entiere. 

honour the infamy of their 2]if e lwhole. 

Tel fait un effort et se presente une-fois 

Such-a-one makes an effort and ^himself ^presents once, 

pour avoir le droit de se cacher le reste de 

in-order to-have the right of ^himself iconcealing the remainder of 

sa vie. Le vrai courage a plus de Constance et 

his life. [The] real courage has more of constancy and 

moins d' empressement ; il est toujours ce-qu' il doit 

less of eagerness; it is always what it ought 

etre, il ne faut ni 1' exciter ni le retenir: 1' 

to-be, it *not iis-3necessary either ait Uo-excite or ajt no-detain: the 

homme de bien le porte partout avec lui ; au 

man of virtue sit ^carries every-where with himself; to-the 

combat, contre 1' ennerni; dans un cercle, en faveur 

combat, against the enemy; in a company, in favour 

des absents et de la verite ; dans son lit, contre les 

of-the absent and of the truth; in his bed, against the 

attaques de la douleur et de la mort. La force 

attacks of [the] grief and of [the] death. The strength 

de 1' ame qui V inspire est d' usage dans tous les 

of the soul which ^him ^inspires is of use in all [the] 

temps : elle met toujours la vertu au-dessus des 

times; it ^places ^always [the] virtue above [of-the] 

evenements, et ne consiste pas a se-battre, mais a ne 

events, and -— consists not in fighting, but in not 

rien craindre. 

aany-thing bearing, J. J. ROUSSEAU. 



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LXXII. 
Le Suicide. 

[The] Suicide. 

Tu veux cesser de vivre: mais je voudrais bien 

Thou art-willing to-cease to live: but I would-wish much 

savoir si tu as commence. Quoi ! fus - tu 

to-know whether thou hast commenced. What! wast thou 

place sur la terre pour n' y rien faire ? Le 

placed on the earth in-order — sthere ^nothing Uo-do 7 [The] 

ciel ne t' impose - t - il point avec la vie 

heaven, — sto-thee »does-*prescribe — «it anot with [the] life 

une tache pour la remplir? Si tu as fait ta 

a task in-order ^jt ito-fulfil? If thou hast finished thy 

journee avant le soir, repose-toi le reste du 

day's-work before the evening, rest thyself the remainder of-the 

jour, tu le peux; mais voyons ton ouvrage. Quelle 

day, thou sit »canst *do; but let-us-see thy work. What 

reponse tiens - tu prete au juge supreme qui te 

answer keepest thou ready for-the sjudge »supreme who nhee 

demandera compte de ton temps? Malheureux ! 

iwill-ask an account of thy time? Wretched being! 

trouve-moi ce juste qui se-vante d' avoir assez 

find me that righteous man who boasts of having Enough 

vecu: que j' apprenne de lui comment il faut 

*lived: that I may-learn from him how it is-necessary 

avoir porte la vie pour etre en droit de la 

to-have borne [the] life in-order to-be in the right to »it 

quitter. 

>quit. 

Tu comptes les maux de V humanite, et tu 

Thou countest the evils of [the] humanity, and thou 

dis : La vie est un mal. Mais regarde. cherche 

sayest: [The] life is an evil. But look, search 

dans 1' ordre des choses si tu y trouves 

in the order of-[the] things if thou «in-them ifindest 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 183 

quelques biens qui ne soient point meles de maux. 

any benefits which — be not mixed with evils. 

Est-ce done a dire qu' il-n'y-a aucun bien dans 1' 

Is it then to be-said that there-is-not any good in the 

univers, et peux-tu confondre ce qui est mal par sa 

universe, and canst thou confound That which is evil by its 

nature, avec ce qui ne souffre ]e mal que par 

nature, with that which — suffers [the] evil only by 

accident? La vie passive de 1' homme n' est rien, 

accident? The *life ^passive of [the] man — is nothing, 

et ne regarde qu' un corps dont il sera bientot 

and — concerns only a body from-which he will-be soon 

delivre ; mais sa vie active et morale, qui doit 

delivered; but his *life ^active *and smora], which ought 

influer sur tout son etre, consiste dans 1' exercice 

to-have-influence upon ^whole ihis being, consists in the exercise 

de sa volonte. La vie est un mal pour le mechant 

of his will. [The] life is an evil for the wicked man 

qui prospere, et un bien pour 1' honnete homme 

who prospers, and a benefit for the honest ^man 

infortune ; car ce n' est pas une modification passagere, 

*unfortunate ; for it — is not a ^modification Uransitory, 

mais son rapport avec son objet, qui la rend ou 

but its relation with its object, which sit *makes either 

bonne ou mauvaise. 

good or bad. 

Tu t'ennuies de vivre, et tu dis : La vie 

Thou art-tired of living, and thou sayest : [The] life 

est un mal. Tot ou tard tu seras console, et tu 

is an evil. Soon or late thou wilt-be consoled, and thou 

diras: La vie est un bien. Tu diras plus vrai 

wilt-say : [The] life is a benefit. Thou wilt-say more true 

sans mieux raisonner; car rien n' aura change 

without abetter ^reasoning; for nothing — will-have changed 

que toi. Change done des aujourd'hui ; et puisque c' 

but thou. Change then from to-day; and since it 

est dans la mauvaise disposition de ton ame qu' est le 

is in the bad disposition of thy mind that si s une 

mal, corrige tes affections dereglees, et ne brule pas 

«evil, amend thy ^affections ^disordered, and — burn not 



184 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

ta maison pour n' avoir pas la peine de la 

thy house in-order not to-have — the trouble of *it 

ranger. 

»setting-3in-4order. 

Glue sont dix, vingt, trente ans pour un etre 

What are ten, twenty, thirty years for an %beir\g 

immortel? La peine et le plaisir passent comme 

^immortal? [The] trouble and [the] pleasure pass-away like 

une ombre : la vie s'ecoule en un instant ; elle n' est 

a shadow : [the] life slips-away in an instant ; it — is 

rien par elle-meme ; son prix depend de son emploi. 

nothing by it - self; its value proceeds from its application. 

Le bien seul qu' on a fait demeure, et c' est par lui 

The good alone that one has done remains, and it is by it 

qu' elle est quelque chose. Ne dis done plus que c' 

that it is any thing. «No *say nhen smore that it 

est un mal pour toi de vivre, puisqu' il depend de toi 

is an evil for thee to live, since it depends on thee 

seul que ce soit un bien; et si c' est un mal d' 

alone that it may-be a benefit; and if it is an evil to 

avoir vecu, ne dis pas non-plus qu' il t' est permis 

have lived, — say not either that it athee »is ^allowed 

de mourir: car autant-vaudrait dire qu' il t' est 

to die: for it-would-be-as-fight to-say that it 3thee *is 

permis de n' etre pas homme, qu' il t' est permis 

^allowed to not be — man, as it sthee ^s ^allowed 

de te-revolter contre 1' auteur de ton etre, et de 

to rebel against the author of thy being, and to 

tromper ta destination. 

elude thy destination. 

Le suicide est une mort furtive et honteuse, 

[The] suicide is a death clandestine and shameful, 

c' est un vol fait au genre humain. Avant de le 

it is a theft committed on-the *race ^human. Before — «it 

quitter, npnds - lui ce-qu' il a fait pour toi. Mais 

leaving, restore to-it what it has done for thee. Bui 

je ne tiens a rien, je suis inutile au monde. 

I — hold to nothing, I am useless to-the world. 

Philosophe d' un jour! ignores - tu que tu ne 

Philosopher of a day! »art aignorant athou that thou a not 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 185 

saurais faire un pas sur la terre sans trouver quelque 

icanst make one step on the earth without finding some 

devoir a remplir, et que tout homme est utile a 1' 

duty to discharge, and that every man is useful to [the] 

humanite, par cela seul qu' il existe? 

, humanity, by this only — that he exists? 



Jeune insense ! 


s' il 


te 


reste 


au fond 


Young insensate ! 


if there 


2to-thee 


^remains 


at-the bottom 



du coeur le moindre sentiment de vertu, viens que 

of-thy heart the least sentiment of virtue, come that 

je t' apprenne a aimer la vie. Chaque fois que 

I *thee nnay-teach to love [the] life. Every time that 

tu seras tente d' en sortir, dis en toi-meme: 

thou shalt-be tempted to sfroin-it iwithdraw, say within thyself: 

due je fasse encore une bonne action avant de mourir. 

Let me perform yet one good action before — dying. 

Puis, va chercher quelque indigent a secourir, 

Then, go to-look-for some indigent person to assist, 

quelque infortune a consoler, quelque opprime a defendre. 

some unfortunate to comfort, some oppressed to defend. 

Si cette consideration te retient aujourd'hui, elle te 

If that consideration nhee ^detains to-day, it *thee 

retiendra demain, apres demain, toute la vie. Si 

iwill-detain to-morrow, after to-morrow, 2 W }] Ie nhe life. If 

elle ne te retient pas, meurs, tu n' es qu' un 

it — athee ^detains not, die, thou — art only a 

mechant. 

wicked man. J. J. ROUSSEAU. 



COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



LXXIII. 

Felicite des Hommes Vertueux dans les 

Happiness of-[theJ *Men * Virtuous in the 

Champs-Ely sees. 

^Fields lElysian. 

Telemaque s'avan<ja vers ces rois, qui etaient 

Telemachus advanced towards those kings, who were 

dans des bocages odoriferants, sur des gazons 

in [of-the] ^groves ^odoriferous, on [of-the] turfs 

toujours renaissants et fleuris; mille petits ruisseaux 

always growing and flowery; a thousand little rivulets 

d' une onde pure arrosaient ces beaux lieux, et 

of a *water J pure watered those beautiful places, and 

y faisaient sentir une delicieuse fraicheur: un nombre 

sthere ^caused ^to-be-felt a delicious freshness : an ^number 

infini d' oiseaux faisaient resonner ces bocages de 

^infinite of birds made no-resound Uhose ^groves with 

leurs doux chants ; on voyait tout ensemble les rleurs 

their sweet songs; one saw all together the flowers 

du printemps qui naissaient sous les pas, avec les 

of-the spring which grew under the steps, with the 

riches fruits de F automne qui pendaient des 

rich fruits of the autumn which hung from-the 

arbres. 

trees. 

La jamais on ne ressentit les ardeurs de la 

There sever *one Ino ^ e ^ tne heats of the 

canicule ; la jamais les noirs aquilons n' oserent 

dog-star; there never the black north-winds — dared 

souffler, ni faire sentir les rigueurs de 1' hiver. 

to-breathe, nor to-make to-be-felt the rigours of the winter. 

Ni ]a guerre alteree de sang, ni la cruelle envie 

Neither [the] war thirsty for blood, nor [the] cruel envy 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 187 

qui mord d' une dent venimeuse et qui porte des 

that bites with a stooth ^venomous and that carries [of-the] 

viperes entortillees dans son sein et autour de ses 

vipers curled in her bosom and around — her 

bras, ni les jalousies, ni les defiances, ni la crainte? 

arms, nor [the] jealousies, nor [the] mistrusts, nor [the] fear, 

ni les vains desirs n' approchent jamais de cet 

nor [the] vain desires — ^approach *ever — that 

heureux sejour de ia paix : le jour n' y finit 

happy abode of [the] peace: [the] day snot Uhere sends 

point, et la nuit avec ses sombres voiles y est 

at-all, and [the] night with its " dark veils there is 

inconnue : une lumiere pure et douce se repand 

unknown: a light pure and soft ^itself ^diffuses 

autour des corps de ces hommes justes, et les 

around [of]-the bodies of those 2 m en ^upright, and *them 

environne de ses rayons comme d' un vetement. 

^surrounds with its rays as with a garment. 

Cette lumiere n' est point semblable a la lumiere 

That light — is not similar to the 2 light 

sombre qui eclaire les yeux des miserables mortels y 

isombre which enlightens the eyes of-[the] miserable mortals, 

et qui n' est que tenebres ; c' est plutot une gloire 

and which — is but darkness; it is rather a 3 glory 

celeste qu' une lumiere : elle penetre plus subtilement 

^celestial than a light : it penetrates more subtilely 

les corps les-plus-epais, que les rayons du soleil ne 

the ^bodies 1 thickest, than the rays of-the sun — 

penetrent le plus-pur cristal; elle n' eblouit jamais: 

penetrate the purest crystal; it — ^dazzles inever: 

au contraire, elle fortifie les yeux, et porte dans le 

on-the contrary, it strengthens the eyes, and carries into the 

fond de 1' ame je ne sais quelle serenite. C est d' 

bottom of the heart I *not *know what serenity. It is by 

elle seule que les hommes bienheureux sont nourris; 

it alone that the ^men ^blessed are nourished; 

elle sort d' eux, et elle y entre : elle les 

it proceeds from them, and it sinto-them »enters : it *them 

penetre, et s' incorpore a eux comme les aliments 

penetrates, and ^itself ^incorporates with them as [the] alimeiits 



188 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

s' incorporent a nous ; ils la voient, ils ia 

^themselves ^incorporate with us; they 2 it *see, they ait 

sentent, iJs la respirent; elle fait naitre en eux une 

ifeel, they ^it ibreathe ; it causes to-spring in them an 

source intarissable de paix et de joie : ils sont plonges 

^source ^inexhaustible of peace and of joy; they are immersed 

dans cet abime de delices comme les poissons dans la 

in this abyss of delights as the fishes in the 

mer ; ils ne veulent plus rien ; ils ont tout 

sea ; they no desire ^longer any-thing ; they have every-thing 

sans rien avoir ; car le gout de lumiere pure 

without ^any-thing ^having ; for the taste of slight *pure 

apaise la faim de leur coeur. Tous leurs desirs 

appeases the hunger of their heart. All their desires 

sont rassasies, et leur plenitude les eleve au-dessus 

are satiated, and their plenitude athem ^elevates above 

de tout ce que les hommes vides et affames cherchent 

— all that which [the] *men lempty ^and ahungry look-for 

sur la terre : toutes les delices qui les environnent ne 

on the earth ; all the delights which sthem isurround — 

leur sont rien, parce-que le comble de leur felicite, 

no-them *are ^nothing, because the height of their happiness, 

qui vient du dedans, ne leur laisse aucun 

which comes frorn-[the] within, ^not no-them leaves any 

sentiment pour rien de ce qu' ils voient de 

feeling for any-thing of that which they see of 

delicieux au dehors : ils sont tels que les dieux qui, 

delicious at-the outside: they are like as the gods who, 

rassasies de nectar et d' ambroisie, ne daigneraient 

satiated with nectar and with ambrosia, 2 not i\vould- 3 deign 

pas se nourrir de viand es grossieres qu' on 

— ^themselves Uo-nourish with ^viands ^coarse which one 

leur presenterait a la table la-plus exquise des 

ato-them icould-present at the stable imost ^delicious of-[the] 

hommes mortels. Tous les maux s'enfuient loin de 

»ra^i ^mortal. All the sorrows fly far from 

ces lieux tranquilles ; la mort, la maladie, la 

those aspots Uranquil ; [the] death, [the] disease, [the] 

pauvrete, la douleur, les regrets, les remords, les 

poverty, [the] grief, [the] regrets, [the] remorses, [the] 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 189 



craintes, les esperances m ernes qui coutent souvent 

fears, the ahopes *very that ^cost loften 

autant de peines que les craintes ; les divisions, les 

as-many — sufferings as the fears; [the] divisions, [the] 

degouts, les depits n' y peuvent avoir aucune 

disgusts, [the] spites *not 3 there *can have any 

entree. 

admittance. 

Les hautes montagnes de Thrace, qui, de leurs 

The high mountains of Thrace, which, with their 

fronts couverts de neige et de glace depuis 1' 

brows covered with snow and with ice from the 

origine du monde, fendent les nues, seraient 

origin of-the world, cleave the clouds, might-be 

renversees de leurs fondements poses au centre de 

overturned from their foundations laid at-the centre of 

la terre, que les coeurs de ces homines ne pourraient 

*he earth, but the hearts of those men — could 

pas meme etre emus ; seulement ils ont pitie des 

not even be moved ; only they have pity for-the 

miseres qui accablent les hommes vivants dans le 

miseries which overwhelm the men living in the 

monde : mais c' est une pitie douce et paisible qui 

world: but it is a pity mild and peaceful, which 

n' altere en rien lenr immuable felicite. Une 

*not ^alters in any-thing their immutable felicity. An 

jeunesse eternelle, une felicite sans fin, une gloire 

syouth ^eternal, a felicity without end, a glory 

toute divine est peinte sur leur visage ; mais leur 

all divine is painted on their countenance ; but their 

joie n' a rien de folatre, d' indecent: c' est 

joy 2not *has any-thing of wanton, of indecent; it is 

une joie douce, noble, pleine de majeste ; c' est im 

a joy mild, noble, full of majesty ; it is a 

gout sublime de la verite et de la vertu qui les 

^relish ^sublime of [the] truth and of [the] virtue which *them 

transporte : ils sont sans interruption, a chaque 

iravishes: they are without interruption, at every 

moment, dans le meme saisissement de coeur ou 

moment, in the same intense-excitement of heart in-whid 



190 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

est une mere qui revoit son cher fils qu' elle avait 

is a mother who sees-again her dear son whom she had 

era mort ; et cette joie qui echappe bientot a la 

believed dead; and that joy which ^escapes »soon from the 

mere ne s'enfuit jamais du coeur de ces hommes.. 

mother — aflies *never from-the heart of those men. 

Jamais elle ne languit un instant: elle est toujours 

sNever »it — droops an instant: it is always 

nouvelle pour eux ; ils ont le transport de 1' ivresse, 

new for them; they have the transport of [the] inebriation,. 

sans en avoir le trouble ni 1' aveuglement. Ils 

without «of-it ^having ^the s C onfusion nor the blindness. They 

s'entretiennent ensemble de ce-qu' ils voient et de 

converse together of what they see and of 

ce-qu' ils goutent ; ils foulent a leurs pieds les- 

what they relish; they trample with their feet the 

molles delices, et les vaines grandeurs de leurs 

soft delights r and the vain grandeurs of their 

anciennes conditions qu' ils deplorent ; ils repassent 

ancient conditions which they deplore; they repass 

avec plaisir ces tristes, mais courtes annees ou. 

with pleasure those sad, but short years in-which 

ils ont eu besoin de combattre contre eux-memes et 

they have had need to contend against them - selves and 

contre le torrent des hommes corrompus pour 

against the torrent of-[the] smen ^corrupted in-order 

devenir bons ; ils admirent le secours des dieux 

to-become good ; they admire the assistance of-the gods 

qui les ont conduits, comme par la main, a la vertu, 

who sthem »have *\ed, as by the hand, to [the] virtue, 

au milieu de tant de perils, 

in-the midst of so-many — perils. 

Je ne sais quoi de divin coule sans cesse 

I anot »know what of divine flows without ceasing 

au-travers de leur coeur comme un torrent de la 

through — their heart like a torrent of the 

divinite qui s' unit a eux ; ils voient, ils goutent 

divinity which ^itself mnites to them ; they see, they taste 

qu' ils sont lieureux, et ils sentent qu' ils le seront 

that they are happy, and they feel that they 3so »shall-*be 



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INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 191 

toujours. Us chantent les louanges des dieux, ils 

always. They sing the praises of-the gods, they 

ne font tous ensemble qu' une seule voix, une seule 

— make all together but one single voice, one single 

pensee, tin seul eceur, une meme felicite, qui fait 

thought, one single heart, one like felicity, that causes 

eomme e-ux un flux et reflux dans ces ames unies. 

as they a flux and reflux in those «souls ^united. 

Dans ce . ravissement divin, les siecles coulent plus 

In this secstacy *divine, [the] ages run more 

rapidement que les beures parmi les mortels ; et 

rapidly than {the] hours among [the] mortals; and 

cependant, mille et mille siecles ecoules n' 

nevertheless, thousands and thousands ages passed-away *not 

otent rien a leur felicite toujours nouvelle et 

Uake any-thing from their felicity ever new and 

toujours entiere. Ils regnent tous ensemble, non sur 

ever entire. They reign all together, not on 

des trones que la main des hommes peut 

"of-the] thrones which the hand of-[the] men can 

renverser, mais en eux-memes avec une puissance 

overthrow, but within them - selves with a power 

immuable; car ils n' ont plus besoin d' etre 

immutable; for they *no *have longer need of being 

redoutables par une puissance empruntee d' un 

formidable by a power borrowed from a 

peuple vil et miserable ; et ils ne portent plus ces 

people vile and miserable; and they no *wear ^longer those 

yains diademes, dont 1' eclat cache tant de 

vain diadems, of-whieh the splendour hides so-many — 

craintes et de noirs soucis : les dieux memes les 

fears and — black cares: the agods *very sthem 

ont couronnes de leurs propres mains avec des 

■shave ^crowned by their own hands with [of-the] 

couronnes que rien ne peut fletrir. , t 

crowns which nothing — can sully. FENELON. 



192 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



LXXIV- 

La Vendange. 

The Vintage. 

Vers la gauche, un riche et immense vignoble etale 

Towards the left, a rich and immense vineyard displays 

ses tresors. Le dieu du vin et celui des amours 

its treasures. The god of-[the] wine and he of-the loves 

saluent a-l'envi Ieur domaine: tous-deux sourient 

greet with-emulation their domain: both smile 

d' esperance. De joyeux vendangeurs ont deja 

with hope. [Of] joyful vintagers have already 

sign ale, depuis I' aube du jour, leur bruyante 

signalized, from the dawn of-the day, their noisy 

allegresse par des ritournelles redoublees, et les 

mirth by [of-the] sritornellos ^redoubled, and the 

actives vendangeuses, a-genoux ou penchees pres 

active female-vintagers, on knees or bent near 

des ceps, detachent les grappes parfumees, et les 

[of]-the vines, pluck the grapes iperfumed and sthem 

entassent dans des paniers ; ensuite des enfante 

»heap- 3 up in [of-the] baskets; afterwards [of-the] children 

et des jeunes filles les versent dans des hotter 

and [of-the] young girls ^them »pour into [of-the] dorsels 

deja humides et arrosees de ce jus, dont F 

already moist and bedewed with that juice, of which the 

innocence apparente et la perfide douceur^ semblables 

^innocence ^specious and the perfidious sweetness, similar 

aux decevantes promesses du maiicieux amour, 

to-the deceitful promises of-[the] malicious love, 

recelent les elements du delire et des querelas 

conceal the elements of-[the] delirium and of-[the] aquarrela 

odieuses. 
i odious. 

Non loin de la, on voit un groupe d' autre& 

Not far from there, one sees a group of othe* 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 193 

jeunes filles qui s' amusent a charger outre 

young girls who ^themselves lamuse by loading beyond 

mesure un pauvre villageois dont la physionomie un 

measure a poor villager of- whom the countenance a 

peu naive excite le rire et la malice de 1' essaim 

little silly excites the laughter and the roguishness of the 3 SW arm 

folatre. II flechit sous le faix, i] chancelle, le coteau 

iplayful. He bends under the load, he staggers, the hill 

est rapide ; mais il se-cramponne, il s' arrete a-propos 

is steep; but he holds-on, he ^himself *stops seasonably 

et parvient sans accident jusqu' a la cuve, ou 

and arrives without accident as-far-as to the tub, into-which 

il jette d' un seul coup d' epaule son lourd fardeau. 

he throws with a single jerk of shoulder his heavy burthen. 

Une des jeunes espiegles, qui s' etait montree 

One of-the young wags, who ^herself *had oshown 

plus impitoyable que ses compagnes, eprouve un sort 

more relentless than her companions, experiences a fortune 

moins prospere. Son pied delicat se pose etourdiment 

less successful. Her afoot ^delicate itself irests heedlessly 

sur une grappe de raisin, elle glisse : en vain elfe 

on a bunch of grape, she slips: in vain she 

etend les hras, en vain elle se balance pour 

stretches her arms, in vain she ^herself ^balances in-order 

retablir 1' equilibre ; elle tombe, et sa chute 

to-re-establish the equilibrium; she falls, and her fall 

excite le rire de ses compagnes, qui s' 

excites the laughter of her companions, who ^themselves 

empressent d' aller lui aider a se re lever. 

ihurry to go ^her *to-assist to ^herself iraise. 

Plus-loin, un des vendangeurs deja sur le 

Farther-off, one of-the vintagers already upon the 

retour fuit les atteintes d ? une jeune fille a qui il 

wane flies-from the attacks of a young girl to whom he 

vient-d'adresser quelques paroles un peu lestes. 

has-just-addressed some words a little disrespectful. 

La jeune vendangeuse le poursuit : il veut esquiver 

The young female-vintager shim ipursues : he wishes to-escapc 

son approche ; elle le joint, le saisit, et, pour 

her approach; she ^him icvertakes, «him 3 SC j ze s, and, in-order 

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194 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

se venger, elle presse sur son visage barbu 

^herself no-revenge, she squeezes over his ^face *bearded 

plusieurs grappes de raisin dont elle s' etait 

several bunches of grape with-which she 'herself *had 

armee dans sa course : il detourne la tete, mais il n' 

farmed in her race: he turns his head, but he — 

en reeoit pas-moins, sur son front, dans ses yeux, 

a of-them ^receives nevertheless, on his brow, in his eyes, 

la liqueur exprimee par la main de sa folatre ennemie, 

the liquor pressed-out by the hand of his playful enemy, 

qui, hors d' haleine, vole rejoindre ses compagnes. 

who, out of breath, flies to-rejoin her companions. 

Au pied du coteau, on voyait assis aupres 

At-the foot of-the - hill, one saw seated near 

d' une table, et sous une epaisse feuillee, un groupe 

— a table, and under a thick bower, a group 

de vieillards qui, avec du vin et de jeunes 

of old-men who, with [of-the] wine and [of] youthful 

pensees, se consolaient entre eux des ravages 

thoughts, ^themselves iwere-consoling among them for-the ravages 

du temps. Ces souvenirs, ces douces reverberations 

of-[the] time. Those recollections, those mild reflections 

de la jeunesse sur 1' age avance, semblables aux 

of [the] youth on [the] *age ^advanced, similar to-the 

derniers rayons du soleil dans une soiree d' hiver, 

last rays of-the sun in an evening of winter, 

regenerent, par une sorte de palingenesie, helas ! 

regenerate, through a kind of second-birth, alasf 

trop fugitive, les premieres emotions de la vie. C 

too fugitive, the first emotions of [the] life. It 

est ainsi que F astre du jour rechauffe de ses 

is thus that the planet of-the day warms-again with its 

feux decroissants les membres appesantis du vieillard 

»fires ^decreasing the ^limbs *heavy of-the old-man 

qui ne les voit pas sans regret disparaitre sous V 

who — <Uhem *sees not without regret disappear under the 

horizon. Enfin, avoir vu, avoir eprouve, le dire, 

horizon. In-fine, to-have seen, to-have experienced, *it *to-tell, 

c' est voir, c' est eprouver encore. De-la ces 

it is to-see, it is to-experience again. Thence those 



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epanchements, ces inefFables effusions du coeur, 

disclosings, those ineffable effusions of-the heart, 

ces doux projets pour Y avenir. Le pere, jusqu' 

those charming projects for the future. The father, until 

alors indecis, accorde, en remplissant le verre de 

then irresolute, grants, while filling-up the glass of 

son vieux voisin, sa fille bien aimee au fils 

his old neighbour, his sdaugbter miuch sioved to-the son 

de son ancien ami, et 1' amour, du haut 

of his old friend, and [the] love, from-the height 

des airs, sourit au dieu des vendanges. 

of-the skies, smiles to-the god of-the vintages. 

PGUGENS. 



LXXV. 

Discoars eT Archidamns aux Lacedemoniens. 

Discourse of Archidamus to-the Lacedemonians. 

Peuple de Lacedemone, j' ai ete temoin de beaucoup 

People of Lacedemon, 1 have been witness of many 

de guerres, ainsi que plusieurs d' entre vous, et je n' 

— wars, as-well as many — amongst you, and I — 

en suis que plus porte a craindre celle que 

afrom-that iam only more inclined to dread that which 

vous allez entreprendre. Sans preparatifs et sans 

you are-going to-undertake. Without preparations and without 

ressources, vous voulez attaquer une nation exercee 

resources, you are-willing to-attack a nation well-trained 

dans la marine, redoutable par le nombre de ses 

in the navy, formidable by the number of its 

soldats et de ses vaisseaux, riche des productions 

soldiers and of its ships, rich from-the productions 

de son pays et des tributs de ses allies. 

of its country and from-the tributes of its allies. 

Q,ui peut vous inspirer cette confiance ? 

What can tyou *breathe-into this confidence? 



196 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

Est-ce votre flotte? Mais quel temps ne faudrait - il 

Is it your fleet? But what time — iwould-«require 2 it 

pas pour la retablir? Est-ce 1' etat de vos finances? 

snot to sjt ^repair ? Is it the state of your finances ? 

mais nous n' avons point de tresor public, et les 

but we — have no — treasure ^public, and [the] 

particuliers sont pauvres. Est-ce 1' esperance de 

private-persons are poor. Is it the hope of 

detacher les allies d' Athenes ? mais, comme la plupart 

detaching the allies of Athens? but, as the most-part 

sont des insulaires, il faudrait etre maitre de la 

are [of-the] islanders, it would-require to-be masters of the 

mer pour exciter et entretenir leur defection. Est-ce 

sea in-order to-excite and maintain their defection. Is it 

le projet de ravager les plaines de 1' Attique, et de 

the project of ravaging the plains of [the] Attica, and of 

terminer cette grande querelle dans une campagne ? 

terminating this great quarrel in one campaign 7 

Eh ! pensez-vous que la perte d' une moisson, si 

What ! think you that the loss of one harvest, so 

facile a reparer dans un pays ou le commerce est 

easy to remedy in a country where [the] commerce is 

florissant, engage ra les Atheniens a vous demander 

flourishing, will-induce the Athenians to sof-you *beg 

la paix ? Ah ! que je crains plutot que nous ne ac 

[the] speace? Ah! how I fear rather that we — 

laissions cette guerre a nos enfants, comme un 

may-leave this war to our children, as an 

malheureux heritage ! Les hostilites des villes et 

unhappy legacy ! The hostilities of-[the] towns and 

des particuliers sont passageres ; mais quand la 

of-[the] individuals are transitory; but when [the] 

guerre s' allume entre deux puissants etats, il est 

war ^itself ^kindles between two powerful states, it is 

aussi difficile d' en pre voir les suites que de la 

as difficult to «of-it »foresee *the ^consequences as to »il 

terminer avec honneur. 
^terminate with honour. 

Je ne suis pas d' avis de laisser nos allies dans 

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1' oppression; je dis seulement qu' avant de prendre 

[the] oppression; I *say ionly that before — taking-up 

les armes nous devons envoyer des ambassadeurs 

[the] arms we ought to-send [of-the] ambassadors 

aux Atheniens, et entamer des negotiations. lis 

to-the Athenians, and to-open [of-the] negotiations. They 

viennent-de nous proposer cette voie, et ce serait 

have-just ^to-us * proposed this method, and it would-be 

une injustice de la refuser. Dans 1' intervalle, nous 

an injustice to *it ^refuse. In the meantime, we 

nous adresserons aux nations de la Grece, et 

^ourselves iwill-address to-the nations of [the] Greece, and 

puisque la necessite F exige, aux barbares 

since the necessity ^\t ^requires, to-the barbarians 

eux-memes, pour avoir des secours en argent 

them- selves, in-order to-procure [of-the] succours in money 

et en vaisseaux. Si les Atheniens rejettent nos 

and in ships. If the Athenians reject our 

plaintes, nous les reitererons apres deux ou trois 

complaints, we ^them nvill-reiterate after two or three 

ans de preparatifs, et peut-etre les trouverons-nous 

years of preparations, and perhaps sthem 2shall-find »we 

alors plus dociles. 

then more tractable. 

La lenteur qu' on nous attribue a toujours 

The slowness which they ^to-us ^attribute has always 

fait notre surete ; ni les eloges ni les reproches 

formed our safety; neither [the] praises nor [the] reproaches 

ne nous ont jamais portes a des entreprises 

— *us ihave ^ever sjnclined to [of-the] ^enterprises 

temeraires. Nous ne sommes pas assez habiles pour 

^hazardous. We — are not ^enough »clever to 

rabaisser par des discours eloquents la puissance de 

humble by [of-the] Speeches ^eloquent the power of 

nos ennemis ; mais nous savons que, pour nous 

our enemies; but we know that, in-order ^ourselves 

mettre a portee de les vaincre, il-faut les 

no-place within reach of ^them ^vanquishing, we-ought ^them 

estimer, juger de leur conduite par la-notre, nous 

no-estimate, to-judge of their conduct by ours, ^ourselves 



198 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

premunir contre leur prudence, ainsi que contre leur 

no-fortify against their prudence, as-well as against their 

valeur, et moins compter sur leurs fautes que sur la 

valour, and ^less no-depend upon their faults than upon the 

sagesse de nos precautions. Nous croyons qu' un 

wisdom of our precautions. We think that one 

homme ne differe pas d' un autre homme, mais que 

man — differs not from an other man, but that 

le-plus redoutable est celui qui, dans les occasions 

amost 'formidable sis ihe who, in [the] Emergencies 

critiques, se conduit avec le-plus de prudence et 

^critical, ^himself 'conducts with most — prudence and 

de lumieres. 

— knowledge. 

Ne nous departons jamais des maximes 

— ^Ourselves ilet-sus-^withdraw snever from-the maxims 

que nous avons reeues de nos peres, et qui ont 

which we have received from our fathers, and which have 

conserve cet etat ; deliberez a loisir ; qu' un instant 

preserved this state ; deliberate at leisure ; let 2 a ^moment 

ne decide pas de vos biens, de votre gloire, du 

inot dispose — of your possessions, of your glory, of-the 

sang de tant de citoyens, de la destinee de tant de 

blood of so-many — citizens, of the destiny of so-many — 

peuples : ne declarez pas la guerre, mais faites vos 

nations: — ido-sdeclare *not [the] war, but make your 

preparatifs, comme si vous n' attendiez rien de 

preparations, as though you 2 not idid-sexpect any-thing from 

vos negociations ; et pensez que ces mesures sont les 

your negotiations; and believe that these measures are the 

plus utiles a votre patrie, et les plus propres a 

most useful to your country* and the most proper to 

intimider les Atheniens. 

intimidate the Athenians. BARTHELEMY. 



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LXXVI. 

Peroraison de V Eloge de Marc-Aurele. 

Peroration of the Eulogy of Marcus Aurelius. 

4i Quand le dernier terme approcha, il ne fut point 

When the last moment approached, he — was not 

etonne, Je me sentais eleve par ses discours 

surprised. I ^myself lfelt transported by his adiscourses 

vraiment romains : le grand homme mourant a je ne 

*truly ^Roman : the great man dying has I snot 

sais quoi d' imposant et d' auguste. II semble qu' 

aknow what of imposing and of sublime. Tt seems that 

a-mesure qu' il se detache de la terre, il prend 

in proportion as he ^himself ^withdraws from the world, he assumes 

quelque chose de cette nature divine et inconnue 

some thing of that ^nature ^divine ^and 3 Un known 

qu' il va rejoindre. Je ne touchais ses mains 

which he is-going to-rejoin. I *not Uouched his ahands 

defaillantes qu' avec respect ; et le lit funebre ou 

^relaxing but with awe ; and the 2 bed ifunereal where 

il attendait la mort me semblait une espece de 

he awaited [the] death sto-me ^appeared a kind of 

sanctuaire. 

sanctuary. 

" Cependant 1' armee etait consternee, les soldats 

Meanwhile the army was terrified, the soldiers 

gemissaient sous leurs tentes ; la nature elle-meme 

mourned under their tents; [the] nature it - self 

semblait en deuil; le ciel de la Germanie etait plus 

seemed in mourning ; the sky of [the] Germany was more 

obscur ; des tempetes agitaient la cime des forets 

dark ; [of-the] storms agitated the top of-the forests 

qui environnaient le camp : et ces objets lugubres 

which surrounded the camp : and these ^objects ^melancholy 

semblaient ajouter encore a notre desolation. 

seemed to-add still-more to our desolation. 



200 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

"II voulut quelque temps etre seul, soit pour 

He desired some time to-be alone, either to 

repasser sa vie en presence de P Etre-Supreme soit 

retrace his life in presence of the ^Being ^Supreme or 

pour mediter encore une-fois avant de mourir. Enfin 

to meditate iyet- 3 more ^once before — dying. At-length, 

il nous fit appeler. Tous ]es amis de ce grand 

he a us icaused to-be-called. All the friends of this great 

homme et les principaux de 1' armee vinrent se 

man and the chiefs of the army came ^themselves 

ranger autour de lui ; il etait pale, les yeux presque 

ito-range around — him; he was pale, his eyes almost 

eteints, et les levres a-demi glacees. Cependant 

extinguished, and his lips half frozen. Nevertheless 

nous remarquames tous une tendre inquietude sur son 

we observed *all a tender solicitude upon his 

visage. Prince, il parut se ranimer un moment 

countenance. Prince, he seemed ^himself Uo-ralJy a moment 

pour toi. Sa main mourante te presenta a tous ces 

for thee. His shand *dying 4thee spresented to all those 

viei] lards qui avaient servi sous lui. II leur 

old-men who had served under him. He ^to-therra 

recommanda ta jeunesse. ' Servez - lui de pere,' 

irecommended Hhy syouth. Serve sto-him ifor sfather, 

leur dit - il, ' ah ! servez - lui de pere !' Alors il 

no-them isaid ^he, O! serve no-him *for ^father! Then he 

te donna des conseils, tels que Marc - Aurele 

^thee igave [of-the] counsels, such as Marcus Aurelius 

mourant devait les donner; et bientot apres, Rome 

dying ought *them »to-give ; and soon afterward, Rome 

et 1' univers le perdirent." 

and the universe shim »lost. 

A ces mots tout le peuple romain demeura 

At these words all the ^people iRoman remained 

morne et immobile. Apollonius se-tut, ses larmes 

sullen and motionless. Apollonius was-silent, his tears 

coulerent. II se laissa tomber sur le corps de 

flowed. He ^himself ljet fall upon the corpse of 

Marc -Aurele ; il le serra long-temps entre ses bras: 

Marcus Aurelius; he <*it lpressed long between his arms- 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 201 

et se relevant tout-a-coup: "Mais toi qui vas 

and «himself raising all at-once : But thou who art-going 

succeder a ce grand homme, 6 fils de Marc - Aurele ! 

to-succeed to this great man, O son of Marcus Aurelius! 

6 mon fils, permets ce nom a un vieillard qui t' a 

O my son, permit this name to an old-man who nhee *has 

vu naitre, et qui t' a tenu enfant dans ses 

sseen born, and who sthee *has sheld a child in his 

bras, songe au fardeau que t' ont impose les 

arms, reflect on-the burthen which son-thee shave imposed Uhe 

dieux ; songe aux devoirs de celui qui commande, 

2gods; reflect on-the duties of him who commands, 

aux droits de ceux qui obeissent. Destine a regner, 

on-the rights of those who obey. Destined to reign, 

il faut que tu sois le plus juste ou le plus coupable 

it needs that thou be the most just or the most guilty 

des hommes. Le fils de Marc -Aurele aurait - il 

of-[the] men. The son of Marcus Aurelius »should-3have she 

a choisir ? 

to choose ? 

" On te dira bientot que tu es tout 

Some-one sthee * will-tell soon that thou art all 

puissant ; on te trompera : les bornes de ton autorite 

powerful ; he nhee twill-deceive : the limits of thy authority 

sont dans la loi. On te dira encore que 

are in the law. Some-one sthee *will-lell besides that 

tu es grand, que tu es adore de tes peuples. 

thou art great, that thou art adored of thy people. 

Ecoute : quand Neron eut empoisonne son frere, on 

Listen: when Nero had poisoned his brother, people 

lui dit qu' il avait sauve Rome ; quand il eut fait 

^him Uold that he had saved Rome ; when he had caused 

egorger sa femme, on loua devant lui sa 

^to-be-assassinated *his swife, they praised sbefore 4 him ibis 

justice ; quand il eut assassine sa mere, on baisa 

^justice ; when he had assassinated his mother, they kissed 

sa main parricide, et 1' on courut aux temples 

his shand iparricidal, and — they ran to-the temples 

remercier les dieux. Ne te laisse pas eblouir 

to-thank the gods. — aThyself callow snot to-be-dazzled 



202 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

par des respects. Si tu n' as point de vertus, 

by [of-the] courtesies. If thou — hast not any virtues, 

on te rendra des hommages, et 1' on te 

people athee 'will pay [of-the] homage, and — they ^thee 

haira. Crois-moi, on n' abuse point les peuples. 

'will-hate. Believe me, a-man — deceives not the people. 

La justice outragee veille dans les coeurs. Maitre 

[The] ^justice 'insulted keeps-watch in the hearts. Master 

du monde, tu peux m' ordonner de mourir, mais 

of-the world, thou canst ^me 'compel to die, but 

non de t' estimer. O fils de Marc-Aurele ! pardonne : 

not to nhee 'esteem. O son of Marcus Aurelius! forgive: 

je te parle au nom des dieux, au nom de 

I ^to-thee 'speak in-the name of-the gods, in-the name of 

¥ univers qui t' est confie ; je te parle 

the universe which ato-thee 'is intrusted; I ^to-thee 'speak 

pour le bonheur des hommes et pour le-tien. Non, 

for the happiness of-[the] men and for thy-own. No, 

tu ne seras point insensible a une gloire si pure. 

thou — 'wilt-sbe snot insensible to a glory so pure. 

Je touche au terme de ma vie ; bientot j' irai 

I touch on-the goal of my life; soon I shall-go 

rejoindre ton pere. Si tu dois etre juste, puisse - je 

to-rejoin thy father. If thou art to-be just, 'may-3be-4able 2 I 

vivre encore assez long-temps pour contempler tes 

to-live still Enough 'long to behold thy 

vertus ! Si tu devais un jour " 

virtues ! If thou shouldst-be one day 

Tout-a-coup Commode, qui etait en habit 

On-a-sudden Commodus, who was in ^dress 

de-guerrier, agita sa lance d' une maniere terrible. 

i warrior's, brandished his lance in a ^manner 'dreadful. 

Tous les Romains palirent. Apollonius fut frappe 

All the Romans turned-pale. Apollonius was struck 

des malheurs qui menaeaient Rome. II ne put 

with-the ills that menaced Rome. He *not 'could 

achever. Ce vieillard venerable se-voila le visage. 

conclude. This ^old-man 'venerable veiled his face. 

La pompe funebre, qui avait ete suspendue, reprit 

The a procession 'funeral, which had been stopped, resumed 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 203 

sa marche. Le peuple suivit, consterne et dans un 

its march. The people followed, terrified and in a 

profond silence : il venait-d'apprendre que Marc- Aurele 

profound silence : they had-just-learned that Marcus Aurelius 

etait tout-entier dans le tombeau.. 

was utterly in the tomb. THOMAS. 



LXXVIL 

Caradere du Fat. 

Character of-the Fop. 

C est un homme dont la vanite seule forme le 

This is a man of-whora [the] vanity alone forms the 

caractere ; qui ne fait rien par gout, qui n' 

character; who ^not l does any-thing through inclination, who — 

agit que par ostentation, et qui, voulant s' elever 

acts only through ostentation, and who, wishing ^himself Uo-raise 

au-dessus des autres, est descendu au-dessous de 

above [of-the] others, is descended below — 

lui-meme. Familier avec ses superieurs, important 

him - self. Familiar with his superiors, haughty 

avec ses egaux, impertinent avec ses inferieurs, il 

with his equals, impertinent with his inferiors, he 

tutoie, il protege, il meprise. Vous le saluez, 

thous-and-thees, he protects, he despises. You ^him ^salute, 

il ne vous voit pas ; vous lui parlez, il ne vous 

he — syou lsees not ; you ^to-him *speak, he — 3you 

ecoute pas; vous parlez a un autre, il vous interrompt. 

ihears not: you speak to an other, he lyou. ^interrupts. 

II lorgne, il persifle, au milieu de la societe 

He ogles, he banters, in-the midst of ^the ^ociety 

la-plus respectable et de la conversation la-plus 

most respectable and of ^the ^conversation most 

serieu.se. II dit a 1' homme vertueux de venir le 

serious. He speaks to the srnan ^virtuous to come »him 

voir, et lui indique 1' heure du brodeur et 

*to-see, and *for-him ^appoints the hour of-the embroiderer and 



204 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

du bijoutier. I] n' a aucune connaissance, et il 

of-the jeweller. He snot 'has any knowledge, and he 

donne des avis aux savants et aux artistes. 

gives [of-the] counsels to-the learned and to-the artists. 

II en eut donne a Vauban sur les fortifications, 

He ssome 'would-have ^given to Vauban on [the] fortifications, 

a Le Brun sur la peinture, a Racine sur la poesie. 

to Le Brun on [the] - painting, to Racine on [the] poetry. 

II fait un long calcul de ses revenus ; il n' a 

He makes a tedious calculation of his revenues; he — has 

que soixante mille livres de rente, il ne peut vivre. 

only sixty thousand livres of income, he snot 'can live. 

II consulte la mode pour ses travers comme pour ses 

He consults the fashion for his whims as- well-as for his 

habits, pour son medecin comme pour son tailleur. 

clothes, for his physician as-well-as for his tailor. 

Vrai personnage de theatre, a le voir, vous 

Real character — 'stage, to shim 'see, you 

croiriez qu' il a un masque ; a 1' entendre, vous 

would-believe that he has a mask; to shim 'hear, you 

diriez qu' il joue un role : ses paroles sont vaines, 

would-say that he plays a part : his words are vain, 

ses actions sont des mensonges, son silence meme 

his actions are [of-the] falsehoods, his ssilence 'very 

est menteur. II manque aux engagements qu' il 

is treacherous. He fails at-the appointments which he 

a; il en feint quand il n' en a pas. II ne 

has ; he ^sorae 'pretends when he — s a ny 'has s n ot. He — 

va pas ou on V attend; il arrive tard ou il n' 

goes not where one shim 'expects; he arrives late where he — 

est point attendu. II n' ose avouer un parent 

is not expected. He sn t idares to-own a relation 

pauvre, ou pen connu. II se glorifie de 1' amitie 

poor, or little known. He ^himself 'glorifies with the friendship 

d' un grand a qui il n' a jamais parle, ou qui 

of a great man to whom he — has never spoken, or who 

ne lui a jamais repondu. II a du bel-esprit la 

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suffisance et les mots satiriques ; de 1' homme de 

conceitedness and the swords ^satirical ; of the man of 

qualite, les valets et les creanciers. 

quality, the servants and the creditors. 

Pour-peu-qu' il fut fripon, il serait en tout 

If-ever-so-little he were rogue, he would-be in eveiy-thing 

le contraste de 1' honnete homme : en un mot, c' est 

the contrast of the honest man : in a word, he is 

un homme d' esprit pour les sots qui 1' admirent; 

a man of wit for the fools who 2him ^admire ; 

c' est un sot pour les gens senses qui F e\itent. 

he is a fool for the ^persons 'sensible who ^him 'avoid. 

Mais si vous connaissiez bien cet homme, ce n' est 

But if you knew well that man, he — is 

ni un homme d' esprit, ni un sot ; c' est un fat, 

neither a man of wit, nor a fool ; he is a fop, 

c' est le modele d' une infinite de jeunes sots mal 

he is the pattern of an infinity of young fools badly 

eleves. 

trained. DESMAHIS. 



LXXVIII. 

Caractere de V Ego'isie. 

Character of the Selfish Man. 

Gnathon ne vit que pour lui, et tous les hommes 

Gnathon — lives only for himself, and all [the] men 

ensemble sont a son egard comme s' ils n' etaient 

together are to his regard as if they — were 

point. Non content de remplir a une table la premiere 

not. Not content to fill at a table the first 

place, il occupe lui seul ceile de deux autres : il 

seat, he ^occupies 'himself salone that of two others : he 

oublie que le repas est pour lui et pour toute la 

forgets that the repast is for him and for all the 

compagnie ; il se rend maitre du plat, et fait 

company; he ^himself 'renders master of-thc dish, and makes 



206 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

son propre de chaque service : il ne s' attache a 

his own of every course : he snot 3 himseJf ^attaches to 

aucun des mets qu' il n' ait acheve d' essayer 

any of-the dishes before he — may-have made-an-end of trying 

de tous : il voudrait pouvoir les savourer tous, tout 

of all : he would-wish to-be-able ^them ito-relish all, all 

a-la-fois : il ne se sert a table que de ses mains, il 

at-once: he — ^himself ^serves at table only with his hands, he 

manie les viandes, les remanie, demembre, dechire, 

fingers the viands, sihem ifingers-sagain, disjoints, tears, 

et en use de-maniere qu' il faut que les 

and 2 f-them *uses in-such-manner that it is-necessary that the 

convies, s' ils veulent manger, mangent ses restes ; 

guests, if they want to-eat, eat his leavings; 

il ne leur epargne aucune de ces malpropretes 

he snot ^them ^spares any of those ^slovenlinesses 

degoutantes, capables d' oter 1' appetit aux 

disgusting, fit to take-away the appetite from-the 

plus affames : le jus et les sauces lui degouttent 

most hungry: the gravy and the sauces [to-him] drop 

du menton et de la barbe : s' il enleve un ragout 

from-his chin and from his beard: if he takes a ragout 

de dessus un plat, il le repand en chemin dans 

from upon a dish, he sjt ispills in the road in 

un autre plat et sur la nappe ; on le suit a 

an other dish and on the table-cloth; one ahim ^follows by 

la trace : il mange haut et avec grand bruit ; il roule 

the track: he eats loud and with great noise; he rolls 

les yeux en mangeant ; la table est pour lui un ratelier : 

his eyes while eating; the table is for him a rack: 

il cure ses dents, et il continue de manger. II se 

he picks his teeth, and he continues to eat. He *to-himself 

fait, en quelque endroit qu' il se trouve, une 

imakes, in any place that he ^himself ifinds, a 

maniere d' etablissement, et ne souffre pas d' etre plus 

port of establishment, and — bears not to be more 

presse au sermon ou au theatre que dans sa chambre. 

crowded at-the sermon or at-the theatre than in his chamber. 

Il-n'y-a dans un carrosse que les places du fond 

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qui lui conviennent : dans toute autre, si on veut 

which 2him *suit: in every other, if one will 

1' en croire, il palit et tombe en faiblesse. 

shim sabout-it ibelieve, he turns-pale and falls into fainting. 

S' il fait un voyage avec plusieurs, il les previent 

If he makes a journey with several, he ^them loverreaches 

dans les hotelleries, et il sait toujours se 

in the inns, and he knows always afor-himself 

conserver, dans la meilleure chambre, Je meilleur lit. 

Uo-reserve, e'm uhe 8 best »roorn, athe 4 best sbed. 

II tourne tout a son usage : ses valets, ceux d' 

He turns every-thing to his use : his servants, those of 

autrui, courent dans le meme temps pour son service : 

others, run at the same time for his service: 

tout ce qu' il trouve sous sa main lui est propre y 

all that which he finds under his hand sto-him *is Opposite, 

hardes, equipage : il embarrasse tout-le-monde, ne 

clothes, equipage : he embarrasses every-body, snot 

se contraint pour personne, ne plaint personne, 

shimself ^restrains for any-body, snot ipities any-body, 

ne connait de maux que les-siens, que sa repletion 

snot iknows of pains but his-own, but his surfeit 

et sa bile; ne pleure point la mort des autres, 

and his bile ; — bewails not the death of-[the] others, 

n' apprehende que la-sienne, qu' il racheterait 

— apprehends only his-own, which he iwould- 3 redeem 

volontiers de 1' extinction du genre humain. 

^willingly by the extinction of-the «race »human. 

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LXXIX. 

Le Riche et le Pauvre. 

The Wealthy and the Poor Man. 

Giton a le teint frais, le visage plein, et les 

Giton has the complexion ruddy, the face full, and the 

joues pendantes, 1' ceil fixe et assure, les epaules 

cheeks hanging, the eye fixed and bold, the shoulders 

larges, la demarche ferme et deliberee : il parle avec 

broad, the gait firm and resolute : he speaks with 

confiance, il fait repeter celui qui 1' entretient, et 

confidence, he causes ^to-repeat *him who shim Entertains, and 

il ne goute que mediocrement tout ce qu' il lui 

he — relishes but indifferently all that which he Ho-him 

dit : il deploie un ample mouchoir, et se-mouche 

isays: he unfolds an ample handkerchief, and blows-his-nose 

avec grand bruit ; il crache fort loin, et il eternue 

with great noise ; he spits very far, and he sneezes 

fort haut ; il dort le jour, il dort la nuit, et 

very loud; he sleeps the day, he sleeps the night, and 

profondement ; il ronfle en compagnie ; il occupe 

soundly ; he snores in company ; he occupies 

a table et a la promenade plus de place qu' un 

at table and at the promenade more — room than an 

autre ; il tient le milieu en se-promenant avec ses 

other; he keeps the middle while walking with his 

egaux ; il s'arrete, et J' on s'arrete ; il continue de 

equals; he stops, and — they stop; he continues to 

marcher, et 1' on marche ; tous se reglent sur 

walk, and — they walk; all ^themselves iregulate upon 

lui ; il interrompt P il redresse ceux qui ont la parole ; 

him; he interrupts, he censures those who have the word; 

on ne 1' interrompt pas, on 1' ecoute aussi 

they — *him ^interrupt not, they ^jm ilisten-to as 

long-temps qu' il veut parler, on est de son avis ; 

long as he wishes to-speak, they are of his opinion ; 






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on croit les nouvelles qu' il debite. S' il s' assied, 

they believe the news which he utters. If he ^himself iseats, 

vous le voyez s' enfoncer dans nn fauteuil, croiser 

you ahim *see *himself sbury in an arm-chair, cross 

les jambes V nne sur 1' autre, froncer le sourcil, 

his legs the one on the other, knit his brow, 

abaisser son chapeau sur ses yeux pour ne voir 

bring-down his hat over his eyes in-order not to-see 

personne, ou le relever ensuite, et decouvrir son 

any-body, or ait iraise afterwards, and uncover his 

front par fierte, ou par audace. II est enjoue, 

forehead through pride, or through boldness. He is jocose, 

grand rieur, impatient, presomptueux, colere, 

a great laugher, restless, presumptuous, passionate, 

libertin, politique, mysterieux sur les affaires du 

licentious, a politician, mysterious on the affairs of- the 

temps ; il se croit des talents et de 1' esprit : 

time; he ^himself ibelieves of-[theJ talents and of [the] wit: 

il est riche, 

he is rich. 

Phedon a les yeux creux, le teint echauffe? 

Phedon has the eyes hollow, the complexion heated, 

le corps sec, et le visage maigre : il dort peu, et 

the body lean, and the face emaciated : he sleeps little, and 

d' un sommeil fort leger; il est abstrait, reveur, et 

with a slumber very light ; he is inattentive, thoughtful, and 

il a, avec de V esprit, 1' air d' un stupide : il 

he has, with [of] [the] sense, the look of a stupid man: he 

oublie de dire ce-qu' il sait, ou de parler d' evenements 

forgets to tell what he knows, or to speak of events 

qui lui sont connus ; et, s' il le fait quelquefois, 

which 3to-him »are »known ; and, if he ait *does sometimes, 

il s' en tire mal; il croit peser 

he ^himself afrom-it ^extricates badly; he thinks himself to-be-a-burthen 

a ceux a qui il parle : il conte brievement, mais 

to those to whom he speaks: he recounts briefly, but 

froidement; il ne se fait pas ecouter, il ne fait 

coldly; he — shimself imakes a n ot listened-to, he — makes 

point rire ; il applaudit, il sourit a ce-que les autres 

not to-laugh; he applauds, he smiles at what [the] others 

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210 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

lui disent, il est de leur avis, il court, il vole 

sto-him *say, he is of their opinion, he runs, he flies 

pour leur rendre de petits services : il est 

in-order ^them Uo-render [of] little services : he is 

complaisant, flatteur, empresse ; il est mysterieux sur 

obsequious, flattering, officious; he is mysterious on 

ses affaires, quelquefois menteur; il est superstitieux, 

his affairs, sometimes a liar; he is superstitious, 

scrupuleux, timide ; il marche douce merit et 

scrupulous, timid ; he walks softly and 

legerement, il semble craindre de fouler la terre ; il 

lightly, he seems to-fear to tread the ground; he 

marche les yeux baisses, et il n' ose les lever 

walks his eyes cast-down, and he snot *dares *them sraise 

sur ceux qui passent. II n' est jamais du nombre 

on those who pass. He — is never of-the number 

de ceux qui forment un cercle pour discourir; il 

of those who form a circle in-order to-discourse; he 

se met derriere celui qui parle, recueille 

^himself 1 places behind him who speaks, collects 

furtivement ce-qui se-dit, et se retire si on le 

stealthily what is-said, and shimself ^withdraws if one shim 

regarde. II n' occupe point de lieu, il ire tient point 

ilooks-at. He — occupies not any place, he — takes not 

de place ; il va les epaules serrees, le chapeau 

any room ; he walks his shoulders shrunk, his hat 

abaisse sur ses yeux pour n' etre point vu ; il 

brought-down over his eyes in-order not to-be sat-all 1 seen ; he 

se replie, et se renferme dans son manteau ; 

^himself ^olds-sup, and ^himself uvraps-aup in his cloak ; 

il-n'y-a point de galeries si embarrassees ni si 

there-are not any galleries so encumbered nor so 

remplies de monde, ou il ne trouve moyen de 

full of people, where he snot idoes-afind means to 

passer sans effort, et de se couler sans etre 

pass without effort, and to ^himself isteal-3off without being 

aperc^u. Si on le prie de s' asseoir, il se met 

perceived. If one shim *begs to ^himself ^seat, he ^himself iplaces 

a-peine sur le bord d' un siege ; il parle bas dans 

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la conversation, et il articule mal: libre neanmoins 

[the] conversation, and he articulates badly: frank nevertheless 

sur les affaires publiques, chagrin contre le siecle, 

on the ^affairs ^public, morose against the age, 

mediocrement prevenu contre les ministres et le 

moderately prepossessed against the ministers and the 

ministere, il n' ouvre la bouche que pour repondre : 

ministry, he — opens his mouth but to answer: 

il tousse, il se-mouche sous son chapeau, il crache 

he coughs, he blows-his-nose under his hat, he spits 

presque sur lui, et il attend qu' il soit seul 

almost upon himself, and he waits until he be alone 

pour eternuer, ou si cela lui arrive, c' est 

in-order to-sneeze, or if this ato-him ^happens, it is 

a-l'insu de la compagnie ; il n' en coute 

without-the-knowledge of the company ; it — 2for-it *costs 

a personne ni sahit, ni compliment : il est 

to any-one neither salute, nor compliment : he is 

pauvre. 

poor. I*A BRUYERE. 



LXXX. 

La Cariosite, oa les Manxes. 

[The] Curiosity, or [the] Fancies. 

La curiosite n' est pas un gout pour ce-qui est 

[The] curiosity — is not a taste for what is 

bon ou ce-qui est beau, mais pour ce-qui est rare, 

good or what is beautiful, but for what is rare, 

unique, pour ce-qu' on a, et ce-que les autres n' 

unique, for what one has, and what [the] others — 

ont point. Ce n' est pas un attachement a ce-qui 

have not. It — is not an attachment to what 

est a la mode ; ce n' est pas un amusement, mais 

is in the fashion; it — is not an amusement, but 

une passion, et souvent si violente qu' elle ne cede 

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212 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

a 1' amour et a 1' ambition que par la petitesse 

to [the] love and to [the] ambition only by the littleness 

de son objet. Ce n' est pas une passion qu' on 

of its object. It — is not a passion which one 

a generalement pour les choses rares et qui ont 

has generally for [the] things rare and that have 

cours, mais qu' on a seulement pour une certaine 

a run, but which one has only for a certain 

chose qui est rare, et pourtant a-la-mode. 

object which is rare, and yet fashionable. 

Le fleuriste a un jardin dans un faubourg; 

The flower-fancier has a garden in a suburb ; 

il y court au lever du soleil, et il en 

he ^thither *runs at-the rising of-the sun, and he sfrom-it 

revient a son coucher. Vous le voyez plante, et 

^returns at its setting. You ^him isee planted, and 

qui a pris racine au milieu de ses tulipes et 

who has taken root in-the midst of his tulips and 

devant la solitaire. II ouvre de grands yeux, il 

before the solitary. He opens [of] wide eyes, he 

frotte ses mains, il se-baisse, il la voit de plus 

rubs his hands, he stoops, he ^it ilooks-at [of] more 

pres, il ne 1' a jamais vue si belle, il a le coeur 

nearly, he — *it *has ^never sseen so beautiful, he has his heart 

epanoui de joie, la quitte pour 1' orient ale ; de-la 

cheered with joy, *it leaves for the oriental; thence 

il va a la veuve; il passe au drap oV or; 

he goes to the widow; he passes to-the cloth of gold; 

de celle-ci a 1' agate, d'ou. il revient enfin a 

from that to the agate, whence he returns at-last to 

la solitaire, oii il se fixe, ou il se lasse, 

the solitary, where he ^himself ifixes, where he ^himself *tires, 

ou il s' assied, oii il oublie de diner ; aussi est- 

wherehe^himself *seats, where he forgets to dine; but-then ^is 

elle nuancee, bordee, huilee, a pieces emportees ; 

»it shaded, edged, oiled, with leaves ^nipped; 

elle a un beau vase, ou un beau calice; il la 

it has a fine vase, or a beautiful cup ; he ait 

contemple, il 1' admire; Dieu et la nature n' excitent 

ibeholds, he »it «admires; God and [the] nature ^not ^excite 



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point en cela son admiration; il ne va pas plus-loin 

at-all in that his admiration; he — goes no farther 

que F ognon de sa tulipe, qu' il ne livrerait 

than the root of his tulip, which he s n ot *would-3give-*up 

pas pour mille ecus, et qu' il donnera pour 

not for a thousand crowns, and which he will-give for 

rien quand les tulipes seront negligees, et que les 

nothing when [the] tulips shall-be neglected, and when [the] 

billets auront prevalu. Get homme raisonnable, qui 

pinks shall-have prevailed. That ^man ^rational, who 

a une ame, qui a un culte et une religion, revient 

Sias a soul, who has a worship and a religion, returns 

chez-lui, fatigue, affame, mais fort content de sa 

to-his-house, fatigued, hungry, but very content with his 

joumee : il a vu des tulipes. 

day; he has seen [of-the] tulips. 

Parlez a cet autre de la richesse des rnoissons, 

Speak to that other of the richness of-the harvests, 

d' une ample recolte, 37 une bonne vendange ; il 

€f an abundant crop, of a good vintage; he 

test curieux de fruits; vous n' articulez pas, vous Be 

is fond of fruits; you — articulate not, you «not 

vous faites pas entendre: parlez - lui de figues et 

^yourself imake — to-be-understood : speak to-him of figs and 

de melons ; dites que les poiriers rompent de fruits 

of melons; say that the pear-trees break-down with fruits 

cette annee, que les pechers ont donne avec 

this year, that the peach-trees have yielded with 

abondance ; c' est pour lui un idiome inconnu : il 

abundance; this is for him an sjdiom Unknown : he 

s'attache aux seuls pruniers, il ne vous repond pas. 

adheres to-the ^alone iplum-trees, he — *you ^answers not. 

Ne F entretenez pas me me des pruniers : il n' 

— 3Hhn ^entertain not even with-the plum-trees: he — 

a de F amour que pour une certaine espece, toute 

has [of] [the] affection but for a certain species, any 

autre que vous lui nommez le fait sourire et 

other which you ^to-him iname «him smakes sneer and 

se-moquer. II vous mene a F arbre, cueille 

mock. He ^you *leads to the tree, plucks 



214 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

artistement cette prune exquise, il 1' ouvre, vous 

skilfully that spi U m ^exquisite, he ait *opens, ayoa 

en donne une moitie, et prend 1' autre. Quelle 

&of-it tgives sone ^half, and takes the other. What 

chair! dit-il; goutez-vous cela? cela est divin! 

pulp! says lie; *do-3relish ^you that? that is divine! 

voila ce-que vous ne trouverez pas ailleurs ! Et la- 

this-is what you — *will-3find a n ot elsewhere! And there- 

dessus ses narines s'enflent, il cache avec peine 

upon his nostrils swell, he conceals with difficulty 

sa joie et sa vanite, par quelques dehors de 

his joy and his vanity, by some appearances o$ 

modestie. O 1' homme divin en effet I homme 

modesty. O the *man »divine in - deed? a man 

qu' on ne peut assez louer et admirer, homme 

whom we anot *can sufficiently praise and admire, a man 

dont il sera parle dans plusieurs siecles I. Glue 

of-whom it will-be spoken in many centuries ! Let 

je voie sa taille et son visage, pendant qu' il vit! 

me see his shape and his countenance, whilst that he lives ! 

que j' observe les traits et la contenance d' un 

let me observe the features and the look of a 

homme qui, seul entre les mortels, possede une 

man who, atone among [the} mortals, possesses aa 

telle prune ! 

»such plum ! 

Un troisieme que vous allez voir, vous parle 

A third whom you are-going to-see, ^to-you speaks 

des curieux ses confreres, et surtout de Diognete. 

of-the connoisseurs his fellows, and especially of Diognetes. 

Je 1' admire, dit il, mais je le comprends moins 

I ahim »admire, says he, but I ^him 'understand less 

que jamais. Pensez-vous qu' il cherche a s' 

than ever. Think you that he seeks to ahimself 

instruire par les medailles, et qu' il les regarde 

instruct by [the] medals, and that he athem ^considers 

comme des preuves parlantes de certains faits, et 

as [of-the] ^proofs ^speaking of certain facts, and 

des monuments fixes et indubitables de 1' histoire 

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INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 215 

ancienne ? rien moins. Yous croyez peut-etre que 

^ancient? nothing less. You believe perhaps that 

toute la peine qu' il se dorme pour recouvrer 

all the trouble which he^himself igives in-order to-recover 

une tete vient du plaisir qu' il se fait de ne 

one head proceeds from-the pleasure which he himself *does in not 

Yo-ir pas une suite d 1 emperexirs interrompue ? c' est 

seeing — a series of emperors interrupted? it is 

encore moins, Diognete sait d' une medaille le 

still less. Diognetes knows of a medal the 

fruste. le flou, et la fleur du coin; il 

defaced legend, the light-and-soft, and the die of-the mint; be 

a une tablette dont toutes les places sont garnies, 

iias a shelf of-which all the places are filled, 

a f exception d' une seule ; ce vide lui blesse 

to the exception of one only; this vacuum [to-him] hurts 

la vue, et c' est pTecisement a la lettre pour le 

his sight, and it is precisely to the letter to *it 

remplir qu' il emploie son bien et sa vie. 

ifill that he employs his property and his life. 

Yous voulez, ajoute Democede, voir mes 

You wish, adds Democedes, to-see my 

^stampes ? et bientot il les etale, et vous les 

prints? and soon he nhem ispreads-aout, and no-you ^them 

montre. Yous en rencontrez une qui n' est 

ishows. You 3 f-them ^light-upon *one which — is 

m noire, ni nette ni dessinee, et d'ailleurs moins 

neither black, nor clean nor drawn, and moreover less 

propre a etre gardee dans un cabinet qu' a tapisser 

proper to be ^ kept in a cabinet than to deck 

un jour de fete le Petit -pont, ou la rue Neuve. 

on a aday — ifeast the little bridge, or the ^street »new. 

II convient qu' elle est mal gravee; plus-mal 

He grants that it is badly engraved; worse 

•dessinee ; mais il assure qu' elle est d' un Italien 

drawn ; but he asserts that it is by an Italian 

qui a travaille pen, qu' elle n' a presque pas 

who has done little, that it — has ^scarcely inot 

ete tiree. que c' est la seule qu' il-y-ait en 

been printed, that it is the only one that there-is in 



216 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

France de ce dessin, qu' il 1' a achetee tres-cher, 

France of that design, that he *it *has ^bought very dear, 

et qu' il ne la changerait pas pour tout ce 

and that he — *it * would -^exchange snot for all that 

qu' il-y-a de meilleur. J' ai, continue - 1 - il, une 

which there-is of best. I have, continues — he, a 

sensible affliction, et qui m' obligera de renoncer 

lively affliction, and which *me *will-compel to renounce 

aux estampes pour le reste de mes jours; j* 

[of-the] prints for the remainder of my days; I 

ai tout Calot, hormis une seule, qui n' est pas 

have all Calot, except one alone, which — is not 

a-la-verite de ses bons ouvrages ; au eontraire, c 

in-truth of his good works; on-the contrary, if 

est un des moindres, mais qui acheverait Calot ;, 

is one of-the meaner, but which would-complete Calot ; 

je travaille a]i depuis vingt ans a recouvrer cette* 

I have-laboured since twenty years to recover that 

estampe, et je desespere enfin d' y reussir : ce.Ias 

print, and I despair at-last of ^in-it isucceeding: tha?i 

est bien rude 1 

is very hard t 

Un autre fait la satire de ces gens qui s* 

An other makes [the] satire of those people who athemselve* 

engagent, par inquietude ou par curiosite, dan?- 

'engage, through restlessness or through curiosity, in. 

de longs voyages ; qui ne font ni memoires, ni 

[of] long journeys; who — make neither memoirs, noir 

relations ; qui ne portent point de tablettes ; qui vonr. 

narratives; who — carry not any tablets; who g<» 

pour voir, et qui ne voient pas, ou qui oublierVi 

in-order to-see, and who — see not, or who forget 

ce-qu' ils ont vu ; qui desirent seulement connaitiv 

what they have seen ; who wish only to-know 

de nouvelles tours ou de nouveaux clochers, et passer 

of new towers or of new steeples, and to-pas>. 

des rivieres qu' on n' appelle ni la Seine 

[of-the] rivers which one — calls neither the Seine 

ni la Loire ; qui sortent de leur patrie pour y 

nor the Loire; who go-out of their country in-order ^to-it 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 217 

retoumer; qui aiment a etre absents; qui veulent un 

no-return; who like to be absent; who desire one 

jour etre revenus de loin : et ce satirique parle juste 

day to-be returned from afar: and this satirist speaks right 

et se fait ecouter. 

and ^himself *makes to-be-heard. 

Mais quand il ajoute que les livres en 

But when he adds that [the] books ^of-them 

apprennent plus que les voyages, et qu' il m' 

*afford-information more than [the] travels, and that he 8 me 

a fait comprendre par ses discours qu' il a une 

»has smade understand by his discourse that he has a 

bibliotheque, je souhaite de la voir. Je vais trouver 

library, I wish to ait *see. I go to-find 

eet h.omme, qui me recoit dans une maison ou, 

that man, who «me ^receives in a house where, 

des P escalier, je tombe en faiblesse d' une odeur de 

from the stairs, I fall into fainting from an odour of 

maroquin noir dont ses livres sont tout couverts. 

amorocco *black with-which his books are entirely covered. 

II a-beau me crier aux oreilles, pour me rammer. 

He may ato-ine *bawl to-the ears, in-order ame 1 to-revive, 

qu' ils sont dores sur tranche, ornes de filets 

that they are gilt on the edge, ornamented with fillets 

d' or, et de la bonne edition; me nommer les 

of gold, and of the good edition; *me iname the 

meilleurs les uns apres les autres; dire que sa galerie 

best the ones after the others; say that his gallery 

est remplie, a quelques endroits pres, et qu' ils 

is full, with some places excepted, and that they 

sont peints de-maniere qu' on croit voir de vrais livres 

are painted so that one thinks to-see [of] real books 

arranges sur des tablettes, et que 1' oeil s' y 

arranged on [of]-the shelves, and that the eye itself aby-ii 

trompe ; ajouter qu' il ne lit jamais, qu' il ne met 

^deceives; add that he — breads inever, that he — sets 

pas le pied dans cette galerie, qu' il y viendra 

not his foot in that gallery, that he *there ^vill-comt 

pour me faire plaisir; je le remercie de sa 

in-order a me no-do pleasure ; I ^him Uhank for hii 

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218 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



complaisance, et ne veux, non' plus que lui, visiter sa 

kindness, and — wish. no more than he, to-visit his 

tannerie, qu' il appelle bibliotheque. 

tan-house, which he calls a library. 

Un bourgeois aime les batiments ; il se 

A rich-citizen loves [the] buildings; he sfor-himself 

fait batir un hotel si beau, si riche et si orne, 

icauses ^to-be-built an hotel so beautiful, so rich and so ornamented, 

qu' il est inhabitable. Le maitre, honteux de s' 

that it is uninhabitable. The master, ashamed of ^himself 

y loger, ne pouvant peut-etre se resoudre a le 

*in-it ^lodging, not being able perhaps ^himself *to-induce to ajt 

louer a un prince ou a un homme d' affaires, se-retire 

*rent to a prince or to a man of business, retires 

au galetas, ou il acheve sa vie, pendant que I' 

to-the garret, where he finishes his life, whilst that the 

enfilade et les planchers de rapport sont en proie 

suite-of-rooms and the floors of inlaid-work are [in] prey 

aux Anglais et aux Allemands qui voyage nt, et 

to-the English and to-the Germans who travel, and 

qui viennent la du Palais-Royal, et du 

who come thither from-the Palais-Royal, and from-the 

Luxembourg. On heurte sans fin a cette belle 

Luxemburg. They knock without end at that beautiful 

porte ; tous demandent a voir la maison, et personne 

door; all ask to see the house, and no-one 

a voir monsieur. 

to see the master. 

Diphile commence par un oiseau, et flnit par 

Diphilus begins with one bird, and finishes with 

mille. Sa maison n' en est pas infectee, mais 

a thousand. His house — «by-them *is *not ajnfected, but 

empestee ; la cour, la salle, 1' escalier, le vestibule, 

poisoned ; the yard, the hall, the staircase, the lobby, 

les chambres, le cabinet, tout est voliere. Ce 

the rooms, the closet, every-thing is an aviary. It 

n' est plus un ramage, c' est un vacarme ; les vents 

*no »is longer a warbling, it is an uproar; the winds 

d' automne et les eaux dans leurs plus-grandes 

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INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 219 

crues, ne font pas un bruit si percant ni si aigu ; 

swellings, — make not a din so piercing nor so sharp; 

on ne s' entend pas plus parler que dans 

people — 4 each-other shear *no smore sspeak than in 

ces chambres ou il faut attendre, pour faire 

those rooms where it is-necessary to-wait, in-order to-perform 

le compliment d' entree, que les petits chiens aient 

the ceremony of entry, until the little dogs have 

aboye. Ce n' est plus pour Diphile un agreable 

barked. It ano *is longer for Diphilus an agreeable 

amusement; c' <est une affaire laborieuse, et a laquelle 

amusement ; it is a ^business ^toilsome, and for which 

il peut a-peine suffire. 

he iis-3able Scarce to-suffice. 

II passe les jours, ces jours qui s'echappent et 

He passes the days, those days which fly-away and 

qui ne reviennent plus, a verser du grain, et 

which *no ^return more, in pouring-out [of-the] grain, and 

a nettoyer des ordures. II donne pension a un 

in cleaning-away [of-the] ordure. He gives board to a 

homme, qui n' a point d' autre ministere que 

man, who — has not any other office than 

de siffler des serins au flageolet, et de faire 

to whistle-to [of-the] finches on-the flageolet. and to cause 

couver des canaris. II est vrai que ce-qu' il 

sto-brood [of-the] ^canary-birds. It is true that what he 

depense d' un cote, il 1' epargne de 1' autre ; car 

spends on one side, he ait *saves on the other; for 

ses enfants sont sans maitre et sans education. II 

his children are without teacher and without education. He 

se renferme le soir, fatigue de son propre 

^himself »shuts-»up in the evening, fatigued by his own 

plaisir, sans pouvoir jouir du moindre repos, 

pleasure, without being-able to-enjoy [of]-the least repose, 

que ses oiseaux ne reposent, et que ce petit 

before his birds — are-at-rest, and before that little 

peuple, qu' il n' aime que parce-qu' il chante, ne 

fry, which he — loves only because it sings, — 

cesse de chanter. II retrouve ses oiseaux dans son 

ceases to sing. He finds-again his birds in his 



220 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE * 

sommeil : lui-meme ii est oiseau, il est huppe, il 

sleep : 3 him - self *he sis a bird, he is crested, he 

gazouille, il perche, il reve la nuit qu' il mue, 

chirps, he roosts, he dreams in the night that he moults, 

ou qu' il couve. 

or that he broods. 

Cet autre aime les insectes, il en fait 

That other loves [the] insects, he ^of-them 1 makes 

tous-les-jours de nouvelles emplettes: c' est surtout 

*every-day [of] anew ^purchases: he is moreover 

]e premier homme de 1' Europe pour les papillons, 

the first man in [the] Europe for [the] butterflies, 

il en a de toutes les tailles et de toutes les 

he *of-them lnas °f aJl [the] sizes and of all [the] 

couleurs. Que] temps prenez-vous pour lui rendre 

colours. What time take you to ahim *pay a 

visite? II est plonge dans une amere douleur, il a 

visit? He is plunged into a bitter grief, he has 

1' humeur noire, chagrine, et dont toute sa famille 

the temper gloomy, sorrowful, and from-which all his family 

souffre : aussi a - 1 - il fait une perte irreparable, 

suffers : but-then ahas — ihe sustained an *loss ^irreparable. 

Approchez, regardez ce qu' il vous montre sur 

Approach, look-at that which he *you *shows on 

son doigt, qui n' a plus de vie, et qui 

his finger, which ano *has longer [of] life, and which 

vient-d'-expirer : c' est une chenille, et quelle chenille ! 

has-just-expired: it is a caterpillar, and what a caterpillar*. 

LA BRUYERE* 



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LXXXL 

V Orage, et la Caverne des Serpents, 

The Storm, and the Cavern of- the Serpents, 

au Perou. 

in-[the] Peru. 

Un murmure profond donne le signal de la guerre 

A amurmur ^profound gives the signal of the war 

que les vents vont se-declarer. Tout-a-coup leur 

which the winds are-going to-declare. All at once their 

fureur s' annonce par d' effroyables sifflements. 

fury itself x announces by [of] dreadful whistlings. 

Une epaisse nuit enveloppe le ciel et le confond avec 

A dark night wraps-up the sky and sit ^blends with 

la terre ; la foudre, en dechirant ce voile 

the earth; the thunder-bolt, while rending this a V eil 

tenebreux, en redouble encore la noirceur ; cent 

idark, sof-it iredoubles ayet-more 3 the ^blackness ; a hundred 

tonnerres qui roulent et semblent rebondir sur une 

thunders which roll and seem to-rebound on a 

chaine de montagnes, en se-succedant les uns aux 

chain of mountains, in succeeding the ones to-the 

autres, ne forment qu' un mugissement qui s'abaisse, 

others, — form but a bellowing which decreases, 

et qui se-renfle comme celui des vagues. Aux 

and which swells-again like that of-the waves. At-the 

secousses que la montagne recoit du tonnerre et 

concussions which the mountain receives from-the thunder and 

des vents, elle s'ebranle, elle s' entr'ouvre ; 

from-the winds, it shakes, it aitself ^half-opens; 

et de ses flancs, avec un bruit horrible, tombent de 

and from its sides, with a anoise ^horrible, fall [of] 

rapides torrents. Les animaux epouvantes s'elancent 

rapid torrents. The aanimals ^frightened rush-out 

des bois dans la plaine ; et, a la clarte de la 

from-the woods into the plain ; and, by the light of the 



222 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

foudre, les trois voyageurs, palissants, voient passer 

thunderbolt, the three travellers, turning-pale, see pass 

a cote d' eux, le lion, le tigre, le lynx, le leopard, 

at the side of them, the lion, the tiger, the lynx, the leopard, 

aussi tremblants qu' eux-memes : dans ce peril 

as trembling as them- selves: in that speril 

universel de la nature, il-n'y-a plus de ferocite, et 

^universal of [the] nature, there-is-no longer any ferocity, and 

la crainte a tout adouci. 

[the] fear has 3 eV ery-thing isoftened. 

L' un des guides d' Alonzo avait, dans sa 

[The] one of-the guides of Alonzo had, in his 

frayeur, gagne la cime d' une roche. Un torrent qui 

fright, gained the top of a rock. A torrent which 

se precipite en bondissant la deracine et 1' 

aitself ^precipitates while bounding 3 it *roots-3up and sit 

entraine, et le sauvage qui 1' embrasse roule 

»carries-saway, and the savage who 2it lembraces rolls 

avec elle dans les flots. L' autre Indien croyait avoir 

with it into the waves. The other Indian thought to-have 

trouve son salut dans le creux d' un arbre ; mais une 

found his safety in the hollow of a tree ; but a 

colonne de feu, dont le sommet touche a la nue, 

column of fire, of-which the summit reaches to the cloud, 

descend sur 1' arbre, et le consume avec le 

descends on the tree, and ait ^consumes with the 

malheureux qui s' y etait sauve. 

unfortunate who nhither *had sfled. 

Cependant Molina s' epuisait a lutter 

Meanwhile Molina ^himself ^exhausted by struggling 

contre la violence des eaux ; il gravissait dans les 

against the violence of-the waters; he climbed in the 

tenebres, saisissant tour-a-tour les branches, les racines 

dark, seizing by-turns the branches, the roots 

des bois qu' il rencontrait, sans songer a ses 

of-the woods which he met, without thinking of his 

guides, sans autre sentiment que le soin de sa propre 

guides, without other feeling than the care of his own 

vie ; car il-est des moments d' effroi ou toute 

life; for there-are [of-the] moments of terror in-which all 



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compassion cesse, ou 1' homme, absorbe en 

compassion ceases, in-which [the] man, absorbed within 

lui-meme, n' est plus sensible que pour lui. 

him - self, a no *is longer sensible but for himself. 

Enfin il arrive, en rampant, au bas d' une 

At-length he arrives, by creeping, at-the foot of a 

roche escarpee ; et, a la lueur des eclairs, 

arock isteep; and, by the corruscation of-the lightnings, 

il voit une caverne dont la profonde et tenebreuse 

he sees a cavern of-which the profound and dark 

horreur 1' aurait glace dans tout autre moment. 

horror shim »would-have ^chilled at an y other moment. 

Meurtri, epuise de fatigue, il se jette au 

Bruised, exhausted with fatigue, he himself Uhrows on-the 

fond de cet antre; et la, rendant graces au 

bottom of that cave; and there, giving thanks to-[the] 

ciel, il tombe dans 1' accablement. 

heaven, he falls into [the] dejection. 

L' orage enfin s'apaise: les tonnerres, les vents 

The storm at-last abates : the thunders, the winds 

cessent d' ebranter la montagne ; les eaux des 

cease from shaking the mountain ; the waters of-the 

torrents, moins rapides, ne mugissent plus alentour; 

torrents, less rapid, ^no *roar more around; 

et Molina sent couler dans ses veines le baume du 

and Molina feels running in his veins the balm of-[the] 

sommeil. Mais un bruit, plus terrible que celui des 

sleep. But a noise, more dreadful than that of-the 

tempetes, le frappe au moment meme ou il 

storms, shim strikes at-the ^moment ivery in-which he 

allait s'endormir. 

was-going to fall-asleep. 

Ce bruit, pareil au broiement de cailloux, est 

This noise, similar to-the grinding of pebbles, is 

celui d' une multitude de serpents, dont la caverne 

that of a multitude of serpents, of-which the cavern 

est le refuge. La voute en est revetue ; et, 

is the refuge. The vault awith-them *is ^covered; and. 

entrelaces les-uns-aux-autres, ils font, dans leurs 

interlaced one-with-another, they form, in their 



224 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

mouvements, ce bruit qu' Alonzo reconnait. II sait 

movements, that noise which Alonzo recognises. He knows 

que le venin de ces serpents est le plus subtil des 

that the venom of those serpents is the most subtile of-the 

poisons; qu' il allume soudain, et dans toutes les 

poisons; that it kindles suddenly, and in all the 

veines, un feu qui devore et consume, au milieu 

veins, a fire that devours and consumes, in-the midst 

des douleurs ies-plus intolerables, le malheureux 

of-the spains *most ^intolerable, the unfortunate 

qui en est atteint. II les entend, il croit les voir 

who sby-it lis ^struck. He ^them shears, he thinks sthem *to-see 

rampants autour de lui, ou pendus sur sa tete, ou 

crawling around — him, or hung over his head, or 

roules sur eux-memes, et prets a s'elancer sur lui. 

rolled over them - selves, and ready to dart upon him. 

Son courage epuise succombe ; son sang se-glace de 

His courage exhausted sinks; his blood chills with 

frayeur ; a-peine il ose respirer. S' il veut 

fright ; ^hardly *he dares to-breathe. If he wishes 

se-trainer hors de 1' antre, sous ses mains, sous 

to-crawl out of the cave, under his hands, under 

ses pas, il tremble de presser un de ces dangereux 

his steps, he trembles to press one of these dangerous 

reptiles. Transi, frissonnant, immobile, environne de 

reptiles. Benumbed, shivering, motionless, surrounded with 

mille morts, il passe la plus-longue nuit dans une 

a thousand deaths, he passes the longest night in a 

penible agonie, desirant, fremissant de revoir la 

painful agony, desiring, shuddering to see-again the 

lumiere, se reprochant la crainte qui le tient 

light, ^himself *reproaching-awith the fear that shim *holds 

enchaine, et faisant sur lui-meme d' inutiles 

enchained, and making upon him - self [of] useless 

efforts pour surmonter cette faiblesse. 

efforts to overcome that weakness. 

Le jour qui vint 1' eclairer justifia sa frayeur. 

The day which came «him Uo-light justified his fright. 

II vit reellement tout le danger qu' il avait 

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pressenti ; il le vit plus horrible encore. II fallait 

misgiven ; he *it *saw more horrible still. It was-necessary 

mourir ou s'echapper. II ramasse peniblement le 

to-die or to-escape. He collects painfully the 

peu de forces qui lui restent ; il se souleve 

little — forces which ato-him »remain ; he ^himself traises 

avec lenteur, se-courbe, et, les mains appuyees sur 

with slowness, bends, and, the hands supported on 

ses genoux tremblants, il sort de la caverne, aussi 

his sknees itrembling, he issues from the cavern, as 

defait, aussi pale qu' un spectre qui sortirail de 

wasted, as pale as a spectre that might-come-out of 

son tombeau. Le meme orage qui 1' avait jete 

his tomb. The same storm which shim *had ^thrown 

dans le peril P en preserva; car les serpents 

into the peril ^him sfrom-it ^preserved ; for the serpents 

en avaient eu autant de frayeur que lui-meme ; 

sfrom-it ihad ^had sas-much — 'fright as him - self; 

et c' est 1' instinct de tous ]es animaux, des que 

and it is the instinct of all the animals, as-soon as 

le peril les occupe, de cesser d' etre malfaisants. 

[the] peril ^them ^seizes, to cease to be hurtful. 

Un jour serein consolait la nature des ravages 

A 2day isevene consoled [the] nature for-the ravages 

de la nuit. La terre, echappee comme d' un 

of the night. The earth, escaped as from a 

naufrage, en ofFrait partout les debris. Des 

wreck, sof-it presented ^everywhere 3 the «ruins. [Of-the] 

forets, qui la veille s' elancaient jusqu' aux 

forests, which the day-before ^themselves ishot even to-the 

nues, etaient courbees vers la terre ; d' autres 

clouds, were bent towards the ground; [of] others 

semblaient se-herisser encore d' horreur. Des 

seemed to-bristle-up still from horror. [Of-the] 

collines qu' Alonzo avait vues s'arrondir sous leur 

hills which Alonzo had seen growing-round under their 

verdoyante parure, entr'ouvertes en precipices, lui 

verdant ornament, half-opened in precipices, *hira 

montraient leurs flancs dechires. De vieux arbres 

*showed their sides rent-asunder. [Of] old trees 

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226 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

deracines, precipites du haut des monts, le pin, 

rooted-up, precipitated from-the top of-the mountains, the pine, 

le palmier, le gayac, le caobo, le cedre, etendus, 

the palm-tree, the guaiacum, the caobo, the cedar, laid-down, 

epars dans la plaine, la couvraient de T eurs troncs 

scattered in the plain, sit ^covered with their ^trunks 

brises et de leurs branches fracassees. Des dents 

^broken and with their ^branches ^crashed. [Of-the] spurs 

de rochers, detachees, marquaient la place des 

of rocks, detached, marked the place of-the 

torrents ; leur lit profond etait borde d' un nombre 

torrents; their sbed ideep was bordered with a dumber 

effrayant d' animaux doux, cruels, timides, feroces, 

^frightful of animals mild, cruel, timid, ferocious, 

qui avaient ete submerges et revomis par les eaux. 

that had been submerged and thrown-up by the waters, 

Cependant ces eaux ecoulees laissaient les bois 

Meanwhile those waters run-off left the woods 

et les carnpagnes se ranimer aux feux du jour 

and the plains themselves to-revive at-the fires of-the ^day 

naissant. Le ciel semblait avoir fait la paix avec 

igrowing. The sky seemed to-have made [the] peace with 

la terre, et lui sourire en signe de faveur 

the earth, and son-it Uo-smile in sign of favour 

et d' amour. Tout ce qui respirait encore 

and of love. All that which *was-3breathing *yet 

recommen^ait a jouir de la vie : les oiseaux, les 

recommenced to enjoy [of] [the] life : the birds, the 

betes sauvages avaient oublie leur efTroi ; car le 

^beasts *wild had forgotten their fright ; for the 

prompt oubli des maux est un don que la 

quick forgetfulness of-[the] evils is a gift which [the] 

nature leur a fait, et qu' elle a refuse aux 

nature no-them *has s m ade, and which she has refused to-[the] 

hommes. 

men. MARMONTEL. 



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LXXXII. 

Le Meschacebe on Mississippi. 

The Meschacebe or Mississippi. 

Ce fleuve, dans un cours de plus de* mille lieues, 

This river, in a course of more than a thousand leagues. 

arrose une delicieuse contree, que les habitants" des 

waters a delightful country, which the inhabitants of-the 

Etats-Unis appelient le nouvel Eden, et a laquelle 

^States lUnited call the new Eden, and to which 

les Francois ont laisse le doux nom de Louisiane. 

the French have left the pleasing name of Louisiana. 

Mille autres fleuves tributaries du Meschacebe, 

A thousand other drivers tributary of-the Meschacebe, 

le Missouri, 1' Illinois, V Akanza, 1' Ohio, le 

the Missouri, the Illinois, the Arkansas, the Ohio, the 

Wabache, le Tenaze, 1' engraissent de leur limon 

Wabash, the Tennessee, ^it imanure with their slime 

et la fertilisent de leurs eaux. Qxiand tous ces 

and »it ^fertilize with their waters. When all these 

fleuves se sont gonfles des deluges de 1' hiver, 

rivers are swelled with-the floods of the winter, 

quand les tempetes ont abattu des pans entiers de 

when the storms have felled [of-the] ^skirts iwhole of 

forets, le temps assemble, sur toute.s les sources, les 

forests, [the] time assembles, on all the sources, the 

arbres deracines : il les unit avec des lianes, il 

trees rooted-up : it *them lunites with [of-the] bindweeds, it 

les cimente avec la vase, il y plante de 

athem icements with the slime, it sthere plants [of] 

jeunes arbrisseaux, et lance son ouvrage sur les ondes. 

young shrubs, and launches its work on the waters. 

Gharries par les vagues ecumantes, ces radeaux 

Carried by the ^waves ^foaming, those rafts 

descendent de toutes parts au Meschacebe. Le 

descend from all parts to-the Meschacebe. The 



228 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

vieux fleuve s' en empare, et les pousse a 

old river aof-them Uakes-possession, and *them ^carries to 

son embouchure pour y former une nouvelle 

its mouth in-order there to-form a new 

branche. Par intervalles, il eleve sa grande voix, en 

branch. By intervals, it raises its loud voice, while 

passant sous les monts, il repand ses eaux debordees 

passing under the mounts, it spreads its ^waters ^overflowed 

autour des colonnades des forets et des pyramid es 

around [of-the] colonnades of- the forests and [of]-the pyramids 

des tombeaux indiens : c' est le Nil des deserts. 

of-the nombs ^Indian : it is the Nile of-the deserts. 

Mais la grace est toujours unie a la magnificence 

But [the] grace is always united to [the] magnificence 

dans les scenes de la nature ; et, tandis-que le 

in the scenes of [the] nature ; and, whilst the 

courant du milieu entraine vers la mer les 

current of-the centre carries-away towards the sea the 

cadavres des pins et des chenes, on voit, sur les 

remains of-the pines and of-the oaks, one sees, on the 

deux courants lateraux, remonter, le long des 

two 2 CU n-ents lateral, reascend, [the] along [of]-the 

rivages, des iles flottantes de pistia et de 

shores, [of-the] islands ifloating of pistia and of 

nenuphar, dont les roses jaunes s'elevent comme de 

water-lily, of-which the ^roses lyellow arise like [of] 

petits pavilions. Des serpents verts, des herons 

little pavilions. [Of-the] ^serpents igreen, [of-the] aherons 

bleus, des namants roses, de jeunes crocodiles, 

»blue, [of-the] ^flamingoes *osy, [of] young crocodiles, 

s' embarquent passage rs sur ces vaisseaux de 

themselves embark passengers on those vessels of 

fleurs, et la colonie, deployant au vent ses voiles 

flowers, and the colony, setting to-the wind its sails 

d' or, va aborder, endormie, dans quelque anse retiree 

of gold, goes to-land, asleep, in some creek retired 

du fleuve. 

from-the river. 

Les deux rives du Meschacebe presentent le 

The two shores of-the Meschacebe present the 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 229 

tableau le-plus extraordinaire. Sur le bord occidental, 

^picture imost Extraordinary. On the ^bank iwestern, 

des savanes se deroulent a-perte* de vue : 

[of-the] savannahs ^themselves *spread-3out till-lost from sight ; 

leurs flots de verdure, en s'eloignant, semblent 

their waves of verdure, while receding, seem 

monter dans 1' azur du ciel, oii ils s'evanouissent 

to-ascend into the azure of-the sky, where they vanish. 

On voit, dans ces prairies sans bornes, errer a 

One sees, in those prairies without limits, wandering at 

P aventure des troupeaux de trois ou quatre 

[the] random [of-the] herds of three or four 

mille bufrles sauvages. Quelquefcis un bison, charge 

thousand ^buffaloes *wild. Sometimes a bison, loaded 

d' annees, fend ant les flots a-la-nage, se-vient 

with years, cleaving the waves in-swimming, comes 

coucher parmi les hautes herbes, dans une ile du 

to-lie-down among the tall grass, in an island of-the 

Meschacebe. A son front orne de deux croissants, 

Meschacebe. From his forehead adorned with two crescents, 

a sa barbe antique et limoneuse, vous le 

from his beard old and slimy, you shim 

prendriez pour le dieu mugissant du fleuve, qui 

iwould-take for the ^god * bellowing of-the river, who 

jette un regard satisfait sur la grandeur de ses ondes 

casts a *eye ^contented over the grandeur of his waters 

et la sauvage abondance de ses rives. 

and the wild abundance of his banks. 

Telle est la scene sur le bord occidental; mais 

Such is the scene on the ^border * western ; but 

elle change tout a coup sur la rive opposee, et 

it changes all at once on the *bank ^opposite, and 

forme avec la premiere un admirable contraste. 

makes with the former an admirable contrast. 

Suspendus sur le cours des ondes, groupes sur les 

Hung over the current of-the waters, grouped over the 

rochers et sur les montagnes, disperses dans les 

rocks and on the mountains, scattered in the 



A perte. Literally, to loss. 



230 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

vallees, des arbres de toutes les formes, de toutes 

valleys, [of-the] trees of all [the] forms, of all 

les couleurs, de tous les parfums, se melent, 

[the] colours, of all [the] perfumes, ^themselves »mingle t 

croissent ensemble, montent dans les airs a des 

grow together, ascend into the air to [of-the] 

hauteurs qui fatiguent les regards. Les vignes 

heights that fatigue the looks. The ayines 

sauvages, les bignonias, les coloquintes, s' 

iwild, the scarlet-jessamines, the colocynths, ^each-other 

entrelacent au pied de ces arbres, escaladent leurs 

^interlace at-the foot of these trees, scale their 

rameaux, grimpent a 1' extremite des branches, 

boughs, climb to the extremity of-the branches, 

s' elancent de 1' erable au tulipier, du 

^themselves *dart from the maple-tree to-the tulip-tree, from-the 

tulipier a P alcee, en formant mille grottes, 

tulip-tree to the musk-melon, while forming a thousand grottoes, 

mille voutes, mille portiques. Souvent, egarees 

a thousand vaults, a thousand porticoes. Often, strayed 

d' arbre en arbre, ces lianes traversent des bras 

from tree to tree, those bindweeds cross [of-the] branches 

de rivieres, sur lesquels elles jettent des ponts et 

of rivers, over which they throw [of-the] bridges and 

des arches de fleurs. Du sein de ces massifs 

[of-the] arches of flowers. From-the midst of its a WO ods 

embaumes, le superbe magnolia eleve son cone 

ibalmy, the superb magnolia raises its *cone 

immobile : surmonte de ses larges roses blanches, il 

^motionless: surmounted by its large *roses iwhite, it 

domine toute la foret, n' a d' autre rival que le 

commands all the forest, *no lnas [pf] other rival than the 

palmier, qui balance legerement aupres de lui ses 

palm-tree, which ^balances Uightly near — it its 

eventails de verdure. 

screens of verdure. 

Une multitude d' animaux, places dans ces belles 

A multitude of animals, placed in those beautiful 

retraites par la main du Createur, y repandent 

recesses by the hand of-the Creator, there spread 



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1' enchante merit et la vie. De 1' extremite des 

[the] enchantment and [the] life. From the extremity of-the 

avenues on aper^oit des ours enivres de raisins, 

avenues one perceives [of-the] bears intoxicated with grapes, 

qui chancellent sur les branches des ormeaux : des 

which rock on the branches of-the young-elms ; [of-the] 

troupes de cariboux se baignent dans un Jac ; 

companies of carybous ^themselves ^bathe in a lake; 

des ecureuils noirs se jouent dans 1' epaisseur 

[of-the] ^squirrels i black ^themselves s S port in the depth 

des feuillages ; des oiseaux moqueurs, des colombes 

of-the leaves; [of-the] ^birds ^mocking, [of-the] sdoves 

virginiennes de la grosseur d' un passereau, descendent 

^Virginian of the size of a sparrow, descend 

sur les gazons rougis par les fraises ; des 

on the turfs reddened by the strawberries; [of-the] 

perroquets verts a tete jaune, des piverts 

aparrots igreen with ^head 1 yellow, [of-the] ^woodpeckers 

empourpres, des cardinaux de feu grimpent en 

ipurple, [of-the] cardinal-birds of fire climb while 

circulant au haut des cypres ; des colibris 

moving-around to-the top of-the cypresses; [of-the] humming-birds 

etincellent sur le jasmin des Florides, et des 

sparkle on the jasmine of-the Floridas, and [of-the] 

serpents oiseleurs sifflent suspendus aux domes 

^serpents ibird-catching hiss suspended at-the domes 

des bois, en s' y balancant comme 

of-the woods, while themselves s n-them ^balancing like 

des lianes. 

[of-the] bindweeds. 

Si tout est silence et repos dans les savanes de 

If all is silence and repose in the savannahs on 

1' autre cote du fleuve, tout ici, au contraire, est 

the other side of-the river, all here, on-the contrary, is 

mouvement et murmure : des coups de bee 

stir and murmur: [of-the] strokes of the beak 

contre le tronc des chenes, des froissements d' 

against the trunk of-the oaks, [of-the] crashings of 

animaux qui marchent, broutent ou broient entre 

animals that walk, browse or break between 



232 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



leurs dents les noyaux des fruits, des bruissements 

their teeth the stones of-the ffuits, [of-thej roarings 

d' ondes, de faibles mugissements, de sourds 

of waves, [of] weak lowings, [of] hollow 

meuglements, de doux roucoulements, remplissent 

roarings, [of] sweet cooings, fill 

ces deserts d' une tendre et sauvage harmonie. 

those deserts with a tender and wild harmony. 

Mais quand une brise vient a animer toutes ces 

But when a breeze comes to animate all those 

solitudes, a balancer tous ces corps flottants, a 

solitudes, to balance all those ^bodies ^floating, to 

confondre toutes ces masses de blanc, d' azur, de 

confound all those masses of white, of azure, of 

vert, de rose, a meler toutes les couleurs, a reunir 

green, of rose, to mingle all the colours, to unite 

tous les murmures, il se-passe de telles choses 

all the murmurs, there pass [of] such things 

aux yeux, que j' essaierais en vain de les 

before-the eyes, that I shou ld-essay in vain to *them 

decrire a ceux qui n' ont point parcouru ces 

^describe to those who — have not traversed those 

champs primitifs de la nature. 

afields ^primitive of [the] nature. CHATEAUBRIAND. 



LXXXIIL 

Contre V Usage des Viandes. 

Against the Use of-[the] Flesh-meats. 

Tu me demandes pourquoi Pythagore s'abstenait 

Thou *me *askest why Pythagoras abstained 

de manger de la chair des betes ? Mais moi je 

from eating of the flesh of-[the] animals? But I, I 

te demande, au contraire, quel courage d' homme 

*thee »ask, on-the contrary, what courage of man 

eut le premier qui approcha de sa bouche une chair 

had the first who brought-near [of] his mouth [a] sflesh 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 233 

meurtrie, qui brisa de sa dent les os d' une bete 

ibruised, who broke with his teeth the bones of an abeast 

expirante, qui fit servir devant lui des corps 

lexpiring, who caused to-be-served-up before him [of-the] ^bodies 

morts, des cadavres, et engloutir dans son estomac 

idead, [of-the] corpses, and to-be-buried in his stomach 

des membres qui, ]e moment d'auparavant, 

[of-the] limbs which, the moment before, 

belaient, mugissaient, marchaient et voyaient? 

were-bleating, were-lowing, were-walking and were-seeing? 

Comment sa main put - elle enfoncer un fer* dans 

How his hand, could it thrust a knife into 

le coeur d' un etre sensible ? comment ses yeux, 

the heart of a abeing isensible? how his eyes, 

purent - ils supporter un meurtre ? comment put - il 

could the} r endure a murder? how could he 

voir saigner, a J ecorcher, demembrer, un pauvre animal 

see bled, skinned, dismembered, a poor animal 

sans defense ? comment put - il supporter F aspect 

without defence? how could he bear the sight 

des chairs pantelantes? comment leur odeur ne lui 

of-the sflesh ^heaving? how their odour, — shim 

fit - elle pas soulever le coeur? comment ne fut-il 

icaused 2 it *not no-rise 5 his ^stomach ? how — w r as he 

pas degoute, repousse, saisi d' horreur, quand il vint 

not disgusted, repelled, seized with horror, when he came 

a manier 1' ordure de ces blessures, a nettoyer le 

to handle the filth of those wounds, to clean-away the 

sang noir et fige qui les couvrait? 

blood black and coagulated which *them covered? 

Les peaux rampaient sur la terre, ecorchees ; 

The skins were-creeping on the ground, taken-off; 

Les chairs au feu mugissaient, embrochees ; 

The flesh at-the fire was-lowing, spitted ; 

L' homme ne put les manger sans fremir, 

[The] man 2n t icould 4 it seat without shuddering, 

Et dans son sein les entendit gemir. 

And in his stomach ^it lheard groan. 



* Fer. Literally, iron; but it means any weapon of iron. 

K* 



234 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



Voila ce-qu' il dut imaginer et sentir la premiere fois 

This-is what he ought to-imagine and to-feel the first time 

qu' il surmonta la nature pour faire cet horrible 

that he conquered [the] nature in-order to-make that horrible 

repas, la premiere fois qu' il eut faim d' une bete 

repast, the first time that he had appetite for a beast 

en vie, qu' il voulut se nourrir d' un animal 

in life, that he wished ^himself Ho-nourish with an animal 

qui paissait encore, et qu' il dit comment il 

which iwas-^grazing a yet, and that he said how it 

fallait egorger, depecer, cuire la brebis qui lui 

was-necessary to-kill, to-cut-up, to-cook the sheep that shim 

lechait les mains. C est de ceux qui commencerent 

*licked his hands. It is with those who commenced 

ces cruels festins, et non de ceux qui les quittent, 

these cruel repasts, and not with those who *them ^abandon, 

qu' on a lieu de s'etonner: encore ces premiers -la 

that we have room to be-astonished : yet those first there 

pourraient justifier leur barbarie par des excuses 

were-able to-justify their barbarity by [of-the] excuses 

qui manquent a la-notre, et dont 3e defaut nous 

which are-wanting to ours, and of-which the lack *us 

rend cent fois plus barbares qu' eux. 

*makes a, hundred *imes more barbarous than they. 

"Mortels bien aimes des dieux," nous diraient 

Mortals much beloved of-the gods, Ho-us *would-say 

ces premiers hommes, " comparez les temps ; voyez 

Uhose afirst amen, compare the times; see 

combien vous etes heureux, et combien nous etions 

how 2you 3are *happy, and how *we 3 were 

miserables ! La terre nouvellement formee, et 1' air 

^miserable! the earth newly formed, and the air 

charge de vapeurs, etaient encore indociles a 1' ordre 

loaded with vapours, were still indocile to the order 

des saisons : le cours incertain des rivieres degradait 

of-the seasons: the ^course uncertain of-the rivers lowered 

leurs rives de toutes parts : des etangs, des lacs, 

their banks on all sides : [of-the] ponds, [of-the] lakes, 

de profonds marecages inondaient les trois quarts de 

[of] deep marshes overflowed the three fourths of 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 235 

la surface du monde ; 1' autre quart etait couvert 

the surface of-the world ; the other fourth was covered 

de bois et de forets steriles. La terre ne 

with woods and with ^forests ^unfruitful. The land — 

produisait pas de bons fruits, nous n' avions pas d' 

produced not any good fruits, we — had not any 

instruments de labourage ; nous ignorions 1' art de 

implements of husbandry ; we did-not-know the art of 

s' en servir; et le temps de la moisson ne 

sof-them ^making-use; and the season of the harvest — 

venait jamais pour qui n' avait rien seme : aussi 

acame Miever for him-who — had Nothing isown : so 

la faim ne nous quittait point. En hiver, la 

[the] hunger snot ^us ^quitted at-all. In winter, the 

mousse et 1' ecorce des arbres etaient nos mets 

moss and the bark of-the trees were our ^dishes 

ordinaires. Quelques racines vertes de chiendent et 

^ordinary. Some ^roots igreen of dog-grass and 

de bruyere etaient pour nous un regal ; et, quand les 

of heath were 3f r *us ia ^treat ; and, when [the] 

hommes avaient pu trouver des fames, des 

men had been-able to-find [of-the] beech-masts, [of-the] 

noix et du gland, ils en dansaient de joie 

nuts and [of]-the acorn, they ^for-them idanced from joy 

autour d' un chene ou d' un hetre, au son de 

around — an oak or — a beech-tree, to-the sound of 

quelques chansons rustiques, appelant la terre leur 

some *songs irustic, calling the earth their 

nourrice et leur mere : c' etait la leur unique fete, 

nurse and their mother : this was there their only feast, 

c' etaient leurs uniques jeux; tout le reste de la 

these were their only sports ; all the rest of [the] 

vie humaine n' etait que douleur, peine et misere. 

•2life ihuman — was but grief, pain and misery. 

"Enfin, quand la terre depouillee et nue ne 

At last, when the earth spoiled and naked no 

nous offrait plus rien, forces d' outrager la 

sto-us ^offered longer any-thing, compelled to outrage [the] 

nature pour nous conserver, nous mangeames les 

nature in-order ^ourselves no-preserve, we eat the 



236 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

compagnons de notre misere plutot que de perir avec 

companions of our misery rather than to perish with 

eux. Mais vous, hommes cruels, qui vous force a 

them. But you, amen icruel, what syou ^forces to 

verser du sang? Yoyez quelle affluence de biens 

shed [of-the] blood? See what affluence of possessions 

vous environne ! combien de fruits vous produit la 

ayou ^surrounds ! how-many — fruits «for-you aproduces Uhe 

terre ! que de richesses vous donnent les champs et 

dearth! what — riches "Jyou egive Uhe ^fields 3 and 

les vignes ! que d' animaux vous offrent leur lait 

*the svines ! how-many — animals tyou loffer their milk 

pour vous nourrir, et leur toison pour vous habiiJer ! 

to ayou ^nourish, and their fleece to *you iclothe ! 

due leur demandez-vous de-plus? et quelle rage 

What sof-them *need syou besides? and what madness 

vous porte a commettre tant de meurtres, rassasies 

syou Pleads to commit so-many — murders, glutted 

de biens et regorgeant de vivres ? Pourquai 

with riches and running-over with provisions? Why 

mentez-vous contre notre mere, en 1' accusant de ne 

ido- 3 lie 2 you against our mother, in ^her ^accusing of not 

pouvoir vous nourrir? Pourquoi pechez-vous contre 

being-able ayou Uo-nourish? Why sin you against 



Ceres, 


inventrice 


des 


saintes 


lois, 


et 


contre 


le 


Ceres, 


inventress 


of-the 


holy 


laws, 


and 


against 


the 



genereux Bacchus, consolateur des hommes, comme 

generous Bacchus, comforter of-[the] men, as 

si leurs dons prodigues ne suffisaient pas a la 

though their sgifts lavished — sufficed not for the 

conservation du genre humain ? Comment avez-vous 

preservation of-the ^kind »human ? How have you 

le coeur de meler avec leurs doux fruits des 

the heart to mingle with their sweet fruits [of-the] 

ossements sur vos tables, et de manger avec le lait 

bones on your tables, and to eat with the milk 

le sang des betes qui vous le donnent? Les 

the blood of-the beasts who syou 3 it 'give ? The 

pantheres et les lions, que vous appelez betes teroces, 

panthers and the lions, which you call leasts ^ferocious, 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 237 

suivent leur instinct par force, et tuent les autres 

follow their instinct by necessity, and kill the other 

animaux pour vivre. Mais vous, cent fois plus 

animals in-order to-live. But you, a hundred times more 

feroces qu' elles, vous combattez 1' instinct sans 

ferocious than they, you combat [the] instinct without 

necessite, pour vous livrer a vos cruel les 

necessity, in-order ^yourselves no-surrender to your cruel 

delices. Les animaux que vous mangez ne sont pas 

delights. The animals which you eat' — are not 

ceux qui mangent les autres ; vous ne les mangez pas 

those that eat the others ; you — sthem *eat not 

ces animaux carnassiers, vous les imitez. Vous n' 

those ^animals ^carnivorous, you athem ^imitate. You ^no 

avez faim que de betes innocentes et douces, et qui 

ihave appetite but for beasts innocent and mild, and that 

ne font de mal a personne, qui s' attachent 

2 no ido [of] harm to any-one, that themselves attach 

a vous, et que vous devorez pour prix de leurs 

to you, and which you devour for recompense of their 

services." 

services. 

O meurtrier contre nature ! si tu t'obstines a 

O murderer against nature! if thou art-obstinate to 

soutenir qu' elle t' a fait pour devorer tes 

maintain that it athee *has ^made in-order to-devour thy 

semblables, des etres de cbair et d' os, sensibles 

fellows, [of-the] beings of flesh and of bone, sensible 

et vivants comme toi, etoufFe done 1' horreur qu' 

and living even-as thou, stifle then the horror which 

elle t' inspire pour ces afFreux repas, tue les 

it siri-thee inspires for these frightful repasts, kill the 

animaux toi-meme, je dis de tes propres mains, 

animals thy - self, I say with thine own hands, 

sans ferrements, sans coutelas ; dechire - les avec 

without iron-instruments, without cutlass; tear them with 

tes ongles, comme font les lions et ]es ours ; mords 

thy nails, as do the lions and the bears; bite 

ce boeuf et le mets en pieces, enfonce tes grifTes 

that ox and *him *put in pieces, thrust thy claws 



238 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

dans sa peau ; mange cet agneau tout vif, devore 

into his skin ; eat that lamh all alive, devour 

ses chairs toutes, chaudes, bois son ame avec son 

his flesh all warm, drink his soul with his 

sang. Tu fremis, tu n' oses sentir palpiter sous 

blood. Thou shudderest, thou *not *darest to-feel nhrob *under 

ta dent nne chair vivante ! Homme pitoyable I tu 

Hhy stooth [aj sflesh living I sMan iniercifuH thou 

commences par tuer 1' animal, et puis tu le 

beginnest by killing the animal, and then thou ^is 

manges, comme pour le faire mourir deux-fois. Ce 

neatest, as-if to ^it »make die twice. This 

n' est pas assez ; la chair morte te repugne encore ; 

— is not enough; the aflesh *dead *thee 3 reV olts still; 

tes entrailles ne peuvent la supporter, il la faut 

thy bowels *not tcan 4 it »bear, it »it *is-necessary 

transformer par le feu, la bouillir, la rotir, V 

*to-transform by the fire, sit ito-boil, a it ito-roast, sit 

assaisonner de drogues qui la deguisent; il te 

no-season with drugs that sjt ^disguise ; there *for-thee 

faut des charcutiers, des cuisiniers, des rotisseurs, 

iis-need of-[the] flesh-dressers, of-[the] cooks, of-[the] meat-roasters, 

des gens pour t' oter 1' horreur du meurtre 

of-[the] people to sfrom-thee ^remove the horror of-the murder 

et t' habiller des corps morts, afm que le 

and athee Uo-dress [of-the] abodies »dead, in-order that the 

sens du gout, trompe par ces deguisements, ne 

sense of-the taste, deceived by these disguises, — 

rejette point ce-qui lui est etranger, et savoure 

*may-3reject snot what sto-it »is strange, and relish 

avec plaisir des cadavres dont V ceil meme 

with pleasure [of-the] corpses of-which the eye *even 

eut peine a souffrir 1' aspect. 

»would-have repugnance Ho *bear the sight. 

J. J. ROUSSEAU. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 239 



LXXXIV. 

Portrait (P Alcibiade. 

Portrait of Alcibiades, 

Des historiens ont fletri la memoire de cet 

Some [of-the] historians have branded the memory of this 

Athenien; d' autres 1' ont relevee par des eloges, 

Athenian; [of] others *it *have Extolled by [of-the] eulogies, 

sans qu' on puisse les accuser d' injustice ou de 

without that one can-be-able »them no-accuse of injustice or of 

partialite. II semble que la nature avait essaye de 

partiality. It seems that [the] nature had endeavoured to 

reunir en .lui tout ce qu' elle peut produire de 

unite in him all that which she is-able to-produce of 

plus fort en vices et en vertus. 

most mighty in vices and in virtues. 

Une origine illustre, des richesses considerables, 

An ^origin ^illustrious, [of-the] niches ^considerable, 

la figure la-plus distinguee, les graces les-plus 

the sfigure *most ^distinguished, athe 'manners most 

seduisantes, un esprit facile et etendu, V honneur 

bewitching, a wit ready and fertile, the honour 

enfin d' appartenir a Pericles : tels furent les 

in-fine of belonging to Pericles: such were the 

avantages qui eblouirent d' abord les Atheniens, et 

advantages that dazzled from first the Athenians, and 

dont il fut ebloui le premier. 

&y- which he was dazzled the first. 

Dans un age oii ¥ on n' a besoin que d' 

At an age when — one — has need only of 

indulgence et de conseils, il eut une cour et des 

indulgence and of counsels, he had a court and [of-the] 

flatteurs; il etonna ses maitres par sa docilite, et 

flatterers; he astonished his teachers by his docility, and 

les Atheniens par la licence de sa conduite. 

the Athenians by the licentiousness of his conduct. 



240 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

Socrate, qui previt de bonne heure que ce 

Socrates, who foresaw from an early time that this 

jeune homme serait le plus dangereux des citoyens 

young man would-be the most dangerous of-the citizens 

d' Athenes, s' il n' en devenait le plus utile, 

of Athens, if he *not •of-them ^became sthe 'most Miseful, 

rechercha son amitie, 1' obtint a force de soins, 

sought his friendship, *it 'obtained by dint of attentions. 

et ne la perdit jamais : il entreprit de moderer cette 

and — sit ^lost 'never: he undertook to moderate that 

vanite qui ne pouvait souffrir dans le monde ni 

vanity which — could brook in the world neither 

superieur ni egal ; et tel etait dans ces occasions 

superior nor equal: and such was in these circumstances 

le pouvoir de la raison ou de la vertu, que le 

the power of [the] reason or of [the] virtue, that tlk^ 

disciple pleurait sur ses erreurs, et se laissaifc 

disciple wept over his errors, and shimself ^allowed 

humilier sans se-plaindre. 

to-be-humbled without complaining. 

Gluand il entra dans la carriere des honneurs> 

When he entered into the career of-[the] honours, 

il voulut devoir ses succes moins a 1' eclat de sa 

he wished to-owe his success less to the splendour of his 

magnificence et de ses liberalites qu' aux attraits de 

magnificence and of his liberalities than to-the eharms of 

son eloquence. II parut a la tribune : un leger 

his eloquence. He appeared at the rostrum : a slight 

defaut de prononciation pretait a ses paroles les graces 

defect of pronunciation lent to his words the ^graces 

naives de 1' enfance ; et, quoiqu* il hesitat 

'simple of [the] childhood ; and, though he might-hesitate 

quelquefois pour trouver le mot propre, il fut 

sometimes in-order to-find the »\vord 'proper, he was 

re garde comrae un des plus-grands orateurs d* 

louked-upon as one of-the greatest orators of 

Athenes. II avait deja donne des preuves de sa 

Alliens. He had already given [of-the] proofs of his 

valeur; et, d' apres ses premieres campagnes, on 

valour; and, from after his first campaigns, people 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 241 

aufifiira qu ? il serait un jour le pk general 

augured that he would-be one day the most skilful general 

de la Grece. Je ne parlerai point de sa douceur, 

of [the] Greece. I — ivsill-sspeafc *not of his mildness, 

de son affabilite, ni de tant d' autre s qualites qui 

of his affability. nor of so-many — , other qualities which 

concoururent a le rendre le plus aimable des 

contributed to *him ^render the most agreeable of-£the] 

hommes, 

men. 

II ne falla.it pas chercher dans son ocgai P 

It — needed not to-seek in his heart the 

elevation que produit la vertu ; mais on y tic: 

elevation which ^prch; teet [-the] e *there 'found 

la hardiesse . ine P instinct de la saperiorite. 

the boldness which sgives 'the sinstind -:: [the] *superiority. 

Aucun obstacle, aucun malheur ne pouvait ni le 

No obstacle, no misfortune — could either -him 

surprendre, ni le decourager : il se midair persuade 

^surprise. or -hi:: ■diseoorage : he seemed persuaded 

que, lorsque les antes d' un certain ordre ne font pas 

that, when [the] minds of a certain order — do not 

tout ee qu' elles reuiem. c" est qu elles n" osent 

all that which they wish, it is because they — 

pas tout ce qu* elles peurent. Force par les 

not all that which they :i Forced 

circonstances de servii les ennemis de sa 

circumstances to serve the enemies of hk ; : :.ry, it 

lui fut aussi facile de gagnei leur confiance pai son 

*to-him *was ^as seasy to ~ win hdence by his 

ascendant, que de les gouxerne; sagesse de ses 

influence, as to athem ■govern by the wisdom of bis 

eonseils, II eut cela de particulier. cud il fit 

counsels. He had this off peculiar. that he caused 

triompber le parti qu* il favorisait, et cue ses 

«to-triumph ithe "party 3 W hich *he favoured. his 

nombreux exploits ne furent jamais terms par aucun 

numerous exploits — were never sullied by any 

revers. 

reverse. 

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242 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

Dans les negociations, il employait tantot les 

In [the] negotiations, he employed one-while the 

lumieres de son esprit, qui etaient aussi vives 

lights of his genius, which were as quick 

que profondes; tantot des ruses et des 

as profound; another- while [of-the] stratagems and [of-the] 

perfidies, que des raisons d' etat ne peuvent jamais 

perfidies, which [of-the] reasons of state — can never 

autoriser; d' autres fois, la facilite d' un caractere 

authorize; at other times, the readiness of a disposition 

que le besoin de dominer ou le desir de plaire 

which the want to command or the desire to please 

pliait sans effort aux conjonctures, Chez tous 

made-pliable without effort to-[the] emergencies. Among all 

les peuples, il s'attira les regards, et maitrisa 1' 

[the] nations, he attracted [the] attentions, and subdued the 

opinion publique. Les Spartiates furent etonnes de 

^opinion ^public. The Spartans were astonished with 

sa frugalite; les Thraces, de son intemperance; les 

his frugality; the Thracians, with his intemperance; the 

Beotiens, de son amour pour les exercices les-plus 

Boeotians, with his love for the ^exercises *most 

violents; les Ioniens, de son gout pour la paresse 

^violent; the Ionians, with his taste for [the] idleness 

et la volupte ; les satrapes de Y Asie, d' un 

and [the] voluptuousness ; the satraps of [the] Asia, with a 

luxe qu' ils ne pouvaient egaler. II se fut 

pomp which they *not *could equal. He shimself *would-have 

montre le plus vertueux des hommes, s' il n' avait 

sshown the most virtuous of-[the] men, if he — had 

jamais eu P exemple du vice ; mais le vice P 

never had the example of-[the] vice; but [the] vice *him 

entrainait sans P asservir. II semble que la 

icarried- 3 away without *him ^enslaving. It seems that the 

profanation des lois et la corruption des moeurs 

profanation of-[the] laws and the corruption of-[the] manners 

n' etaient a ses yeux qu' une suite de victoires 

— were to his eyes but a series of victories 

remportees sur les moeurs et sur les lois; on pourrait 

gained over the manners and over the laws; we might 






INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 243 

dire encore que ses defauts n' etaient que des 

say besides that his faults — were but [of]-the 

ecarts de sa vanite. Les traits de legerete, de 

digressions of his vanity. The traits of levity, of 

frivolite, d' imprudence, echappes a sa jeunesse ou 

frivolousness, of imprudence, let-slip from his youth or 

a son oisivete, disparaissaient dans les occasions 

from his idleness, disappeared in the circumstances 

qui demandaient de la reflexion et de la 

which required [of] [the] reflection and [of] [the] 

Constance. Alors il joignait la prudence a 1' 

constancy. Then he joined [the] prudence to [the] 

activite, et les plaisirs ne lui derobaient aucun 

activity, and the pleasures *not 3 from-him »stole any 

des instants qu' il devait a sa gloire ou a ses 

of-the moments which he owed to his glory or to his 

interets. 

interests. 

Sa vanite aurait tot ou tard degenere en 

His vanity would-have soon or late degenerated into 

ambition; car il etait impossible qu' un homme si 

ambition; for it was impossible that a man so 

superieur aux autres, et si devore de 1' envie de 

superior to-the others, and so devoured by the desire to 

dominer, n' eut pas fini par exiger 1' 

command, — tshould-^have «not finished by exacting [the] 

obeissance apres avoir epuise 1' admiration. 

obedience after having exhausted [the] admiration. 

Aussi fut-il toute sa vie suspect aux principaux 

Therefore was he all his life suspicious to-the principal 

citoyens, dont les uns redoutaient ses talents, les 

citizens, of-whom the ones dreaded his talents, the 

autres ses exces, et tour a tour adore, craint et 

others his excesses, and turn by turn adored, feared and 

hai du peuple qui ne pouvait se-passer de lui. 

hated by-the people who snot *could dispense with him. 

Et comme les sentiments dont il etait 1' objet 

And as the sentiments of-which he was the object 

devenaient des passions violentes, ce fut avec des 

became [of-the] ^passions ^violent, it was with [of-thej 



244 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

convulsions de joie ou de fureur que les Atheniens 

convulsions of joy or of fury that the Athenians 

1' eleverent aux honneurs, le condamnerent a 

ahim 'raised to-[the] honours, shim 'condemned to 

la mort, le rappelerent, et le proscrivirent une 

[the] death, ^him 'recalled, and shim 'outlawed a 

seconde fois. 

second time. 

Dans un moment d' ivresse, le petit peuple 

In a moment of intoxication, the • low people 

proposait de retablir la royaute en sa faveur; mais 

proposed to re-establish [the] royalty in his favour; but 

comme il ne se serait pas contente de n' etre 

as he — shimself 'could- 3 have ^not 4 contented to — be 

qu' un roi, ce n' etait pas la petite souverainete 

only a king, it — was not the. little sovereignty 

d' Athenes qui lui convenait, c' etait un vaste empire 

of Athens that ahjm 'suited, it was a vast empire 

qui le mit en etat d' en conquerir d' 

that ^him 'would-put in a condition to 3 nes 'conquer [of] 

autres. 

bother. 

Ne dans une republique, il devait 1' elever 

Born in a republic, he must-needs ait 'raise 

au-dessus d' elle-meme, avant de la mettre a ses 

above — it - self, before — ait 'putting at his 

pieds. C est la, sans doute, le secret des 

feet. It is there, without doubt, was the secret of-the 

brillantes entreprises dans lesquelles il entraina les 

brilliant enterprises into which he drew the 

Atheniens. Avec leurs soldats il aurait soumis 

Athenians. With their soldiers he would-have subdued 

des peuples, et les Atheniens se seraient 

[of-the] nations, and the Athenians themselves 'would-have 

trouves asservis sans s' en apercevoir. 

afound enslaved without *of-it 'taking-notice. 

Sa premiere disgrace, en 1' arretant presqu' 

His first disgrace, in »him 'arresting almost 

au commencement de sa carriere, n' a laisse 

at-the beginning of his career, — has left 



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voir qu' une verite : c' est que son genie et 

to-be-seen but one truth: it is that his genius and 

ses projets furent trop vastes pour le bonheur de 

his projects were too vast for the happiness of 

sa patrie. On a dit que la Grece ne pouvait 

his country. People have said that [the] Greece %not *could 

porter deux Alcibiade ; on doit aj outer qu' Athenes 

bear two Alcibiades; they ought to-add that Athens 

en eut un de-trop. , 

<of-them ihad *one stoo-many. BARTHELEMY. 



LXXXV. 

Portrait de Pierre -le- Grand. 

Portrait of Peter the Great. 

Pierre - le - Grand fut regrette en Russie de tous 

Peter the Great was regretted in Russia by all 

ceux qu' il avait formes ; et la generation qui 

those whom he had formed; and the generation which 

suivit celle des partisans des anciennes moeurs 

followed that of-the partisans of-the ancient manners 

le regard a bientot comme son pere. Q,uand les 

ahim ^regarded soon as its father. When [thej 

etrangers ont vu que tous ses etablissements etaient 

foreigners have seen that all his establishments were 

durables, ils ont eu pour lui une admiration 

lasting, they have had for him a ^admiration 

constante, et ils ont avoue qu' il avait ete 

^constant, and they have acknowledged that he had been 

inspire plutot par une sagesse extraordinaire, que 

inspired rather by an ^wisdom ^extraordinary, than 

par P envie de faire des choses etonnantes. L' 

by the desire of doing [of-the] things ^wonderful. [The] 

Europe a reconnu qu' il avait aime la gloire, 

Europe has acknowledged that he had loved [the] glory, 

mais qu' il 1' avait mise a faire du bien ; que 

but that he sit »had ^placed in doing [of-the] good; that 



246 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

ses defauts n' avaient jamais affaibli ses grandes 

his faults — had never weakened his grand 

qualites ; qu' en lui F homme eut ses taches ; et 

qualities; that in him the man had his blemishes; and 

que le monarque fut toujours grand. II a force 

that the monarch was always great. He has forced 

la nature en tout, dans ses sujets, dans lui-meme, 

[the] nature in every-thing, in his subjects, in him - self, 

et sur la terre et sur les eaux; mais il 1' a 

and over the land and over the waters; but he »it *has 

forcee pour P embellir. Les arts, qu' il a 

aforced in-order ^it Uo-embellish. The arts, which he has 

transplanted de ses mains dans des pays dont 

transplanted with his hands into [of-the] countries of-which 

plusieurs alors etaient sauvages, ont en fructifiant 

many then were savage, have in thriving 

rendu temoignage a son genie et eternise sa 

borne testimony to his genius and immortalized his 

memoire ; ils paraissent aujourd'hui originaires des 

memory; they appear at-this-day natives of-the 

pays memes ou il les a portes. Lois, police, 

countries themselves whither he sthem »has ^carried. Laws, policy, 

politique, discipline militaire, marine, commerce, 

politics, ^discipline ^military, the navy, commerce, 

manufactures, sciences, beaux-arts, tout s' est 

manufactures, the sciences, the fine arts, all is 

perfectionne selon ses vues; et, par une 

perfected according-to . his views; and, by a 

singularity dont il n' est point d' exemple, ce 

singularity of-which there — is not any example, they 

sont quatre femmes, montees apres lui sur le trone, 

are four women, ascended *after ^him *on sthe 3 thrbne, 

qui ont maintenu tout ce qu' il acheva, et ont 

who have preserved all that which he achieved, and have 

perfectionne tout ce qu' il entreprit. 

perfected all that which he undertook. 

C est aux historiens nationaux d' entrer dans 

It is for-the ^historians ^national to enter into 

tous les details des fondations, des lois, des 
all the particulars of-the foundations, of-the laws, of-the 



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guerres et entreprises de Pierre - le - Grand. 11 suffit 

wars and enterprises of Peter the Great. It suffices 

a im etranger d' avoir essaye de montrer ce-que 

to a foreigner to have tried to show wnat 

fut le grand homme qui apprit de Charles XII. a 

was the great man who learned from Charles XII. to 

le vaincre, qui sortit deux-fois de ses etats 

ahim ivanquish, who awent-out itwice of his dominions 

pour les mieux gouverner, qui iravailla de ses 

in-order nhem sbetter Uo-govern, who worked with his 

mains a presque tous les arts necessaires^ pour 

hands at almost all the sarts ^necessary, in-order 

en donner 1' exernple a son peuple, et qui 

«of-them Uo~give s the ^example to his people, and who 

fut le fondateur et le pere de son empire, 

was the founder and the father of his empire. 

yQLTAISE, 



LXXXVL 

Portrait de Charles XIL 

Portrait of Charles XII. 

Charles XIL, roi de Suede, eprouva ce-que la 

Charles XIL, king of Sweden, experienced what [the] 

prosperite a de plus grand, et ce-que 1' adversite 

prosperity has of most grand, and what [the] adversity 

a de plus cruel, sans avoir ete amolli par V 

has of most cruel, without having been enervated by the 

une, ni ebranle un moment par 1' autre. Presque 

one, nor staggered a moment by the other. Almost 

toutes ses actions jusqu' a celles de sa vie privee, 

all his actions even to those of his *life ^private, 

ont ete bien loin au-dela du vraisemblable. 

have been very far on-the-other-side of-the probable. 

C est peut-etre le seul homme, et jusqu'ici le seul 

He is perhaps the only man, and hitherto the only 

de tous les rois, qui ait vecu sans faiblesse; 

one of all the kings, who has lived without weakness; 



248 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

il a porte toutes les vertus des heros a un exces 

he has carried all the virtues of-[the] heroes to an excess 

ou elles sont aussi dangereuses que les vices 

where they are as dangerous as the slices 

opposes. 

^opposite. 

Sa fermete, devenue opiniatre, fit ses malheurs 

His firmness, become obstinacy, caused his misfortunes 

dans 1' Ukraine, et le re tint cinq ans en 

in the Ukraine, and shim ikept five years in 

Turquie; sa liberalite, degenerant en profusion, a 

Turkey; his liberality, degenerating into profusion, has 

mine la Suede: son courage, pousse jusqu' a la 

ruined [the] Sweden: his courage, pushed even to [the] 

temerite, a cause sa mort: sa justice a ete 

temerity, has caused his death: his justice has been 

quelquefois jusqu' a la cruaute ; et, dans les 

sometimes as-far-as to [the] cruelty; and, in the 

dernieres annees, le maintien de son autorite 

latter years, the maintenance of his authority 

approchait de la tyrannie. Ses grandes qualites, 

approached [of] [the] tyranny. His great qualities, 

dont une seule eut pu immortaliser un 

of-which one only would-have baen-able to-immortalize an 

autre prince, ont fait le malheur de son pays. 

other prince, have caused the misfortune of his country. 

II n' attaqua jamais personne ; mais il ne fut 

He — ^attacked inever any-one ; but he — was 

pas aussi prudent qu' implacable dans ses 

not as prudent as implacable in his 

vengeances. 

revenges. V 

II a ete le premier qui ait eu P ambition 

He has been the first who has had the ambition 

d' etre conquerant sans avoir 1' envie d' agrandir 

to be conqueror without having the desire to aggrandize 

ses etats ; il voulait gagner des empires pour 

his dominions; he wished to-gain [of-the] kingdoms in-order 

les donner. Sa passion pour la gloire, pour la 

2 them Uo-give. His passion for [the] glory, for [the] 



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guerre et pour la vengeance, 1' empecha d' etre 

war and for [the] revenge, ahim ^prevented from being 

bon politique : qualite sans laquelle on n' a 

a good politician : a quality without which we — have 

jamais vu de conquerant. Avant la bataille, et apres 

never seen any conqueror. Before the battle, and after 

la victoire, il n' avait que de la modestie ; apres 

the victory, he — had only [of] [the] modesty; after 

la defaite, que de la fermete ; dur pour les 

the defeat, only [of] [the] firmness ; unfeeling for [the] 

autres comme pour lui-meme, comptant pour rien la 

others as for him - self, reckoning for nothing the 

peine et la vie de ses sujets, aussi bien que la-sienne : 

trouble and the life of his subjects, as well as his-own : 

homme unique plutot que grand homme, admirable 

2man ^singular rather than great man, admirable 

pJutot qu' a imiter. Sa vie doit apprendre aux 

rather than to be-imitated. His life ought to-teach to-the 

rois combien un gouvernement pacifique et heureux 

kings how-much a government peaceful and happy 

est au-dessus de tant de gloire. 

is above — so-much — glory. VOLTAIRE. 



LXXXVIL 

Portrait de Washington. 

Portrait of Washington. 

Washington etait ne avec de grandes vertus, 1' amour 

Washington was born with [of] great virtues, the love 

du vrai, et le patriotisme le-plus pur. Son nom 

of-[the] truth, and the spatriotism *most 2p U re. His name 

est profondement grave dans le coeur des Americains, 

is deeply engraven in the heart of-the Americans, 

qui le regardent avec raison comme le liberateur et 

who ahim ^consider with reason as the liberator and 

le pere de leur patrie. On peut dire qu' il fut aussi 

the father of their country. We may say that he was as 



250 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

heureux qu' il fut grand et bon ; et si ses actions, 

fortunate as he was great and good; and if his actions, 

qui furent dictees par la sagesse, n' excitent pas 

which were dictated by [the] wisdom, — excite not 

P enthousiasme dans 1' esprit de ceux qui ne voient 

[the] enthusiasm in the mind of those who — see 

dans les grands hommes que le genie et les 

in [the] great men only the genius and the 

qualites brillantes, elles commandent le respect et 

Equalities ^brilliant, they command [the] respect and 

P admiration dans P ame de tous les gens de bien. 

[the] admiration in the soul of all [the] people of virtue. 

II etait grand et bien fait ; il avait la figure 

He was tall and well made ; he had the countenance 

calme . et pensive mais agreable, les traits reguliers, 

serene and thoughtful but agreeable, the features regular, 

les yeux gris, les cheveux bruns, le corps bien 

the eyes grey, the hair brown, the body well 

proportionne et fortifie par un exercice continuel. 

proportioned and strengthened by [a] exercise ^continual. 

II joignait a beaucoup de dignite des manieres 

He added to much — dignity [of-the] ^manners 

gracieuses qui attiraient le respect et P estime de 

^graceful which attracted the respect and the esteem of 

tous ceux qui s'approchaient de lui. Avec de fortes 

all those who approached [of] him. With [of] strong 

passions, il etait doue des sentiments d' honneur 

passions, he was endowed with-the 3 feelings *of shonour 

les-pius delicats, ce qui, dans sa jeunesse, lui fit 

*most ^delicate, that which, in his youth, »him *made 

eprouver de vifs ressentiments contre ceux qui 

experience [of] lively resentments against those that 

commettaient des injustices, ou se permettaient 

committed [of-the] injuries, or ^themselves undulged-ain 

quelque insulte ; mais les reflexions d' un age plus 

any insult; but the reflections of a sage imore 

avance lui apprirent a se commander si bien qu' 

^advanced shim naught to ^himself ^control so well that 

il pouvait cacher meme les faiblesses inseparables 
he could conceal even the weaknesses inseparable 



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de 1' espece humaine. Discret et reserve, mais 

from the Species *human. Discreet and reserved, but 

accessible a tout le monde, il n' ouvrait son coeur qu' 

accessible to all the world, he — opened his heart only 

a ceux dont il avait eprouve la prudence et la 

to those of-whom he had tried the prudence and the 

discretion. Son jugement etait solide, sa fermete 

discretion. His judgment was solid, his firmness 

inebranlable. Sensible aux plaisirs de la societe, 

immovable. Sensible to-the pleasures of [the] society, 

il aimait a converser familierement avec ses amis. 

he loved to converse familiarly with his friends. 

Simple dans sa maniere de vivre, sobre, econome 

Simple in his mode of living, temperate, economical 

sans avarice, il avait tou jours a sa disposition des 

without avarice, he had always at his disposal [of-the] 

sommes considerables, dont il se-servait pour faire 

*sums ^considerable, of- which he made-use to do 

des charites, ou pour encourage r 1' industrie. 

[of-the] charities, or to encourage [the] industry. 

Citoyen d' une republique naissante, il ne sentit 

Citizen of a arepublic ^growing, he — felt 

point le desir du pouvoir, ni celui des honneurs ; 

not the desire of-[the] power, nor that of-[the] honours; 

il n' eut que 1' ambition de faire du bien en se 

he — had only the ambition of doing [of-the] good in ^himself 

devouant corps et ame a son pays. II avait les 

idevoting body and soul to his country. He had the 

vertus d' Aristide, le courage d' Epaminondas ; et, 

virtues of Aristides, the courage of Epaminondas; and, 

comme ces deux grands hommes, il ne souilla jamais 

like those two great men, he — bullied inever 

ses levres d' un mensonge lors* meme qu'* il 

his lips with a falsehood «when *even he 

plaisantait. Sa piete, egale a son patriotisme, ne 

was-jesting. His piety, equal to his patriotism, — 

degenera point en bigoterie ; et, dans sa vie privee, 

degenerated not into bigotry; and, in his *iif e J private, 
* Lorsque. This word is sometimes divided as above. 



252 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

comme dans sa vie politique et militaire, il remplissait 

as in his *life lpolitical aand smilitary, he ^fulfilled 

toujours scrupuleusement ses devoirs de religion, 

^always scrupulously his duties of religion, 

mettant au-dessus de la science, de la philosophie, 

placing above — [the] science, — [the] philosophy, 

et de tout autre consideration, " les ^ bienfaisantes 

and — every other consideration, the benign 

lumieres de la revelation." 

lights of [the] revelation, 

Unissant les talents du general a 1' habilete 

Adding the talents of-the general to the capacity 

de 1' homme d'etat, il poursuivit ses nobles 

of the ^man ^state's-, he pursued his noble 

desseins a-travers les plus-grandes difficultes ; tantot, 

designs through the greatest difficulties ; one-while, 

a la tete d' une multitude indisciplinee et sans 

at the head of a multitude undisciplined and without 

ordre, luttant avec prudence et intrepidite contre 

order, struggling with prudence and intrepidity against 

des troupes aguerries et bien disciplinees ; 

[of-the] troops used-towar and well disciplined ; 

tantot usant de douceur et d' autorite pour 

another-while making-use of lenity and of authority in-order 

conciiier les partis, apaiser les revokes, faire 

to-conciliate [the] parties, to-suppress [the] revolts, to-make 

taire les mecontents. 

8to-be-silent Uhe ^discontented. 

Vers la fin de sa seconde presidence, ou 

Towards the end of his second presidency, to-which 

les suffrages universels 1' avaient appele, et dont 

the ^suffrages luniversal shim shad ^called, and of-which 

il remplit les fonctions avec autant de zele que 

he discharged the functions with as-much — zeal as 

d' integrite, il demanda a se retirer des 

— integrity, he % asked to ^himself ^withdraw from-[the] 

affaires publiques. Sa conscience ne lui reprochait 

^affairs ^public. His conscience — «him ireproached-awith 

rien ; mais sa modestie et la crainte d' etre 

nothing; but his modesty and the fear of having 



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tombe dans quelque erreur, le porterent a prier 

fallen into some error, *him *led to beg 

ses compatriotes d' oublier les fautes qu' il 

his countrymen to forget the faults which he 

aurait pu faire. Alors, comme un pere 

might-have happened to-commit. Then, like a father 

qui se separe de ses enfans pour les 

who ^himself ^separates from his children in-order *them 

livrer a eux-memes dans un monde rempli de 

ito-surrender to them - selves in a world full of 

soins et de dangers, cet homme veritablement 

cares and of dangers, this sman nruly 

bon leur donna les plus-sages instructions pour 

agood athem *gave the wisest instructions for 

se gouverner: leur recommandant la bonne 

^themselves ^governing: 2to-them ^recommending [the] good 

foi et la justice, sources de toutes les vertus ; 

faith and [the] justice, sources of all the virtues ; 

les prevenant contre les entreprises de 1' ambition 

athem ^warning against the enterprises of [the] ambition 

et de 1' envie, qui s' efforceront toujours a 

and of [the] envy, which ^themselves iwill-sexert ^always to 

les desunir pour renverser leur liberte ; et sur 

athem ^disunite in-order to-overthrow their liberty; and above 

tout les exhortant a la pratique de la religion, 

all sthem ^exhorting to the practice of [the] religion, 

base de toute bonne morale, et soutien de la 

foundation of all good morals, and support of [the] 

prosperite publique. Sa vie doit nous apprendre 

^prosperity ^public. His life ought ^us *to-teach 

combien 1' heroisme calme qui brave les dangers 

how-much the ^heroism »calm that braves [the] dangers 

dans la vue du bien public, est au-dessus de ces 

in the view of-the ^weal ^public, is above — those 

bri Hants genies dont la gloire ne se mesure que 

brilliant geniuses 3 of-whom *the 2g]ory — ^itself ^measures only 

sur des villes detruites, ou des peuples vaincus. 

on [of-the] cities destroyed, or [of-the] nations vanquished. 

ANONYMOUS. 



254 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 



LXXXVIIL 

Portrait eT Hippocrate. 

Portrait of Hippocrates. 

Ce grand homme s' est peint dans ses ecrits, 

This great man ^himself *has depicted in his writings. 

Rien de si touchant que cette candeur avec laquelle 

Nothing is — so touching as that candour with which 

il rend compte de ses malheurs et de ses fautes. Ici, 

he gives account of his misfortunes and of his faults. Here, 

vous lisez les listes des malades qu' il avait traites 

you read the lists of-the patients whom he had attended 

pendant une epidemie, et dont la plupart etaient 

during an epidemic, and of-whom the most-part had 

morts entre ses bras. La, vous le verrez aupres 

died between his arms. There, you *»him *will-see near 

d' un Thessalien blesse d' un coup de-pierre a la 

— a Thessalian wounded with a ^stroke *stone's on the 

tete. II ne s'apercut pas d'abord qu' il fallait 

head. He — perceived not at -first that it was-necessary 

recourir a la voie du trepan. Des signes 

to-recur to the method of-the trepan. [Of-the] *signs 

funestes 1' avertirent enfln de sa meprise: 1' operation 

»fatal *him awarned at-last of his mistake: the operation 

fut faite le quinzieme jour, et le malade mourut 

was performed the fifteenth day, and the patient died 

le lendemain. C est de lui-meme que 1' on tient 

the day-following. It is from him - self that — we have 

ces aveux ; c' est lui qui, superieur a toute espece d' 

these confessions; it is he who, superior to every species of 

amour-propre, voulut que ses erreurs memes servissent 

*love iself, wished that his ^errors »very should-serve 

de lecons. 

for lessons. 

Non content d' avoir consacre ses jours au 

Not satisfied with having devoted his days to-the 



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soulagement des malheureux, et depose dans ses 

relief of-the unfortunate, and laid-down in his 

ecrits les principes d' une science dont il fut Ie 

writings the principles of a science of-which he was the 

createur, il laissa, pour 1' instruction du medecin, 

creator, he left, for the instruction of-the physician, 

des regies importantes et precieuses. 

[of-the] rules important and valuable. 

" Voulez - vous," dit - il, " former un eleve, 

Wish you, said he, to-form a pupil, 

assurez - vous lentement de sa vocation. A - 1 -il 

assure yourselves slowly of his vocation. Has — he 

recu de la nature un discernement exquis, un 

received from [the] nature a ^discernment »nice, a 

jugement sain, un caractere mele de douceur et de 

judgment *sound, a temper compounded of mildness and of 

fermete, le gout du travail, et du penchant pour 

firmness, the taste for-[the] labour, and [of]-the inclination for 

les choses honnetes, concevez des esperances. 

[the] ^objects ^honourable, conceive [of-the] hopes. 

SoufTre - 1 - il des souffrances des autres ; son 

Suffers — he from-the afflictions of-[the] others; his 

ame compatissante aime - 1 - elle a s'attendrir sur les 

asoul ^compassionate, loves — it to be-melted over the 

maux de 1' humanite, concluez - en qu' i] 

evils of [the] humanity, infer from-it that he 

se-passionera pour un art qui apprend a secourir 

will-have-a-passion for an art which teaches to succour 

1' humanite. 

[the] humanity. 

" Q,uand vous 1' adoptates pour disciple," 

When you shim ^adopted for disciple, 

ajoutet-il, "il jura de conserver dans ses moeurs et 

adds — he, he swore to preserve in his manners and 

dans ses fonctions une purete inalterable. Q,u' il ne 

in his functions an ^purity ^unalterable. Let him not 

se contente pas d' en avoir fait le serment. 

'himself ^content — with s f-it ^having ^made athe «oath. 

Sans les vertus de son etat, il n' en remplira 

Without the virtues of his profession, he — ^of-it twill-adischarge 



256 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

jamais les devoirs. Quelles sont ces vertus? Je n' 

anever *the duties. What are these virtues? I — 

en excepte presque aucune, puisque son ministere 

sfrom-them ^exclude scarcely any-one, since his ministry 

a cela d' honorable, qu' il exige presque toutes les 

has that of honourable, that it requires almost all the 

qualites de 1' esprit et du coeur; et en effet, si 1' 

qualities of the mind and of-the heart ; and in fact, if — 

on n' etait assure de sa discretion et de sa 

people snot *were assured of his discretion and of his 

sagesse, quel chef de famille ne craindrait pas, en 1' 

wisdom, what head of family — iwould-sfear snot, in shim 

appelant, d' introduire un espion ou un intrigant dans 

^calling, to introduce a spy or an intriguer into 

sa maison, un corrupteur aupres de sa femme et de 

his house, a corrupter near — his wife and — 

ses lilies? Comment compter sur son humanite, s' il 

his daughters? How to-rely on his humanity, if he 

n' aborde ses malades qu' avec une gaite revoltante, 

anot ^accosts his patients but with a %aiety ^revolting, 

ou qu' avec une humeur brusque ou chagrine ; sur sa 

or but with a temper abrupt or morose; on his 

fermete, si, par une servile adulation, il menage leur 

firmness, if, by a servile cringing, he consults their 

degout, et cede a leurs caprices; sur sa prudence, 

squeamishness, and yields to their caprices; on his prudence, 

si, toujours occupe de sa parure, toujours couvert d' 

if, always busy with his dress, always covered with 

essences et d' habits magniiiques, on ]e voit 

essences and with ^clothes ^magnificent, people ^him isee 

errer de ville en ville pour y prononcer en 

wander from town to town in-order there to-deliver in 

faveur de son art des discours etayes du 

behalf of his art [of-the] discourses supported by-the 

temoignage des poetes ; sur ses lumieres, si, outre 

testimony of-the poets; on his knowledge, if, besides 

cette justice generate que 1' honnete homme observe 

that ^justice ^general which the honourable man observes 

a 1' egard de tout le monde, il ne possede pas celle 

with [the] respect to all the world, he — possesses not that 



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que le sage exerce sur lui-meme, et qui lui 

which the sage exercises on him - self, and which shim 

apprend qu' au milieu du plus grand savoir 

Reaches that in-the midst iof-nhe ^most 5 vast ^knowledge 

se-trouve encore plus de disette que d' abondance ; sur 

is-found still more of scarcity than of abundance; on 

ses intentions, s' il est domine par un fol orgueil et 

his intentions, if he is governed by a foolish pride and 

par cette basse en vie qui ne fut jamais le partage 

by that base envy which — was never the share 

de 1' homme superieur; si, sacrifiant toutes les 

of the sman ^superior; if, sacrificing all [the] 

considerations a sa fortune, il ne se devoue qu' 

considerations to his fortune, he — ahimself idevotes only 

au service des gens riches ; si, autorise par 1' 

to-the service of-the ^people nvealthy ; if, authorized by the 

usage a regler ses lionoraires des le commencement 

custom to settle his fees from the beginning 

de la maladie, il s'obstine a terminer le marche, 

of the disease, he insists on determining the price, 

quoique le malade empire d' un moment a f 

though the patient grows-worse from one moment to the 

autre ? 

other 1 

"Ces vices et ces defauts caracterisent surtout 

These vices and these defects characterize especially 

ces hommes ignorants et presompteux qui degradent 

those *nien ^ignorant sand spresumptuous who degrade 

le plus noble des arts, en trafiquant de la vie 

the most noble of-the arts, by trafficking with the life 

et de la mort des hommes ; imposteurs d' autant 

and with the death of-[the] men ; impostors by so-much 

plus dangereux que les lois ne sauraient les 

more dangerous that the laws ^not *can sthem 

atteindre, et que 1' ignominie ne peut les humilier. 

*reach, and that [the] ignominy *not lcan 4 them ahumble. 

" Q-uel est done le medecin qui honore sa 

What ajs Uhen the physician who honours his 

profession? Celui qui a merite 1' estime publique 

profession? He who has merited the ^esteem ^public 

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258 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

par un savoir profond, ime longue experience, 

by a ^knowledge 'profound, a long experience, 

une exacte probite, et une vie sans reproche ; 

an exact probity, and a life without reproach; 

celui aux yeux duquel tous les malheureux sont 

he to-the eyes of-whom all the unfortunate are 

egaux, comme tous les hommes le sont aux yeux 

equal, as all [the] men sso 'are to-the eyes 

de la Divinite ; qui accourt avec empressement a 

of the Divinity; who hastens with eagerness to 

Jeur voix sans acception des personnes, leur 

their cry without preference of- the persons, no-them 

parle avec douceur, les ecoute avec attention, 

aspeaks with mildness, *them 'hears with attention, 

supporte leurs impatiences, et leur inspire cette 

bears-with their impatiences, and ^in-them 'inspires that 

confiance qui suffit quelquefois pour les rendre a 

confidence which suffices sometimes to athem 'restore to 

la vie ; qui, penetre de leurs maux, en etudie 

[the] life; who, pierced by their pains, 'of-them 'studies 

avec opiniatrete la cause et les progres, n' est 

'with Resolution Hhe 3 cause 4 and sthe ^advances, — is 

jamais trouble par des accidents imprevus, se 

never confused by [of-the] ^accidents 'unforeseen, «to-himself 

fait un devoir d' appeler au besoin quelques-uns 

*makes a duty of calling at-the need some ones 

de ses confreres pour s' eclairer de leurs 

of his brethren in-order himself uo-enlighten by their 

conseils ; celui enfin qui, apres avoir lutte de 

counsels; he in-fine who, after having struggled with 

toutes ses forces contre la maladie, est heureux et 

all his powers against the disease, is happy and 

modeste dans le succes, et peut du-moins se 

modest in [the] success, and can at-least ^himself 

feliciter dans les revers d' avoir suspendu des 

•congratulate in [the] reverses with having suspended [of-the] 

douleurs et donne des consolations." 

pains and given [of-the] consolations. 

Tel est le medecin-philosophe qu' Hippocrate 

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comparait a un dieu, sans s'apercevoir qu' il le 

compared to a god, without perceiving that he shim 

retracait en lui-meme. Les medecins le regarderont 

^depicted in him - self. [The] medical-men *him nvill-sconsider 

toujours comme le premier et le plus habile de 

^always as the first and the most skilful of 

leurs legislateurs ; et sa doctrine, adoptee par toutes 

their legislators; and his doctrine, adopted by all 

les nations, operera encore des milliers de 

[the] nations, *will-3effect *yet [of-the] thousands of 

guerisons apres des milliers d' annees. Les plus 

cures after [of-the] thousands of years. The most 

vastes empires ne pourront pas disputer a la 

extensive empires a n ot nvill-sbe-^able — to-dispute with the 

petite ile de Cos la gloire d' avoir produit P 

small island of Cos the glory of having produced the 

homme le-plus utile a F humanite ; et, aux yeux 

man most useful to [the] humanity ; and, to-the eyes 

des sages, les noms des plus-grands conquerants 

of-the sages, the names of-the greatest conquerors 

s'abaisseront devant celui d' Hippocrate. 

will-be-humbled before that of Hippocrates. 

BARTHELEMY. 



LXXXIX. 

Portrait de Platon* 

Portrait of Plato. 

Platon avait recu de la nature un corps robuste, 

Plato had received from [the] nature a *body *robust. 

Ses longs voyages altererent sa sante ; mais il 1' 

His long journeys impaired his health; but he »it 

avait retablie par un regime austere ; et il ne 

*had ^re-established through a sregimen strict; and there artot 

lui restait d' autre incommodite qu' une habitude 

sto-him ^remained any other inconvenience than a habit 

de melancolie, habitude qui lui fut commune 

i>f melancholy, a habit which sto-him »was ^common 



260 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

avec Socrate, Empedocle, et d' autres hommes 

with Socrates, Empedocles, and [of] other amen 

illustres. 

^illustrious. 

II avait les traits reguliers, V air serieux, 

He had the features regular, the deportment serious, 

les yeux pleins de douceur, le front ouvert et 

the eyes full of mildness, the forehead open and 

depouille de cheveux, la poitrine large, les epaules 

stripped of hair, the chest large, the shoulders 

hautes, beaucoup de dignite dans le maintien, de 

high, a-great-deal of dignity in the countenance, of 

gravite dans la demarche, et de modestie dans V 

gravity in the gait, and of modesty in the 

exterieur. 

exterior. 

II s' exprimait avec lenteur; mais les graces 

He ^himself ^expressed with slowness; but the graces 

et la persuasion semblaient couler de ses levres. 

and [the] persuasion seemed to-flow from his lips. 

Sa mere etait de la meme famille que Solon, 

His mother was of the same family as Solon, 

et son pere rapportait son origine a Codrus, dernier 

and his father referred his origin to Codrus, last 

roi d' Athenes. Dans sa jeunesse, la peinture, 

king of Athens. In his youth, [the] painting, 

la musique, les differents exercices du gymnase 

[the] music, the different exercises of-the gymnasium 

remplirent tous ses moments. II etait ne avec une 

filled all his moments. He was born with an 

imagination forte et brillante. II fit des 

imagination strong and brilliant. He composed [of-the] 

dithyrambes, s' exerc^a dans le genre epique ; 

dithyrambics, ^himself ^exercised in the astyle *epic, 

compara ses vers a ceux d' Homere, et les brula. 

compared his verses to those of Homer, and ^them ^burned. 

I] crut que le theatre pourrait le dedommager 

He thought that the theatre might *him ^indemnify 

de ce sacrifice : il composa quelques tragedies ; et, 

for this sacrifice : he composed some tragedies ; and. 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 261 

pendant que les acteurs se preparaient a les 

whilst that the actors ^themselves *were-preparing to 2 them 

representee il connut Socrate, supprima 

^represent, he became-acquainted-with Socrates, suppressed 

ses pieces, et se devoua tout-entier a la 

his pieces, and ^himself ^devoted entirely to [the] 

philosophie. 

philosophy. 

II sentit alors un violent besoin d' etre utile 

He felt then a lively want to be useful 

aux hommes. La guerre du Peloponese avait 

to-[the] men. The war of-the Peloponnesus had 

deiruit les bons principes et corrompu les moeurs: 

destroyed [the] good principles and corrupted the manners: 

la gloire de les retablir excita son ambition. 

the glory of ^them ^restoring excited his ambition. 

Tourmente jour et nuit de cette grande idee, il 

Tormented day and night by this grand idea, he 

attend ait avec impatience le moment ou, revetu 

awaited with impatience the moment when, invested 

de la magistrature, il serait en etat de deployer 

with the magistracy, he should-be in condition to display 

son zele et ses talents; mais les secousses qu' 

his zeal and his talents ; but the convulsions which 

essuya la republique dans les dernieres annees 

^experienced Une ^republic in the latter years 

de la guerre, ces frequentes revolutions qui en 

of the war, those frequent revolutions which in 

peu de temps presenterent la tyrannie sous des 

little — time exhibited [the] tyranny under [of-the] 

formes toujours plus effray antes, la mort de Socrate 

forms ever more frightful, the death of Socrates 

son maitre et son ami, les reflexions que tant 

his master and his friend, the reflections which so-many 

d' evenements produisirent dans son esprit, le 

— events produced in his mind, shim 

convainquirent bientot que tous les gouvernements 

^convinced soon that all [the] governments 

sont attaques de maladies incurables, que les 

are attacked with diseases »incurable, that the 



262 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

affaires des mortels sont, pour ainsi dire, desesperees, 

affairs of-[the] mortals are, ato *so say, desperate, 

et qu' ils ne seront heureux que lorsque la 

and that they — will-be happy only when [the] 

philosophie se chargera dn soin de les 

philosophy ^itself *shall-charge with-the care of sthem 

conduire. Ainsi, renon^ant a son projet, il resolut 

tguiding. So, renouncing [to] his project, he resolved 

d' augmenter ses connaissances, et de les consacrer 

to augment his knowledge,. and to sit *devote 

a notre instruction, Dans cette vue il se-rendit a 

to our instruction. In that view he went to 

Megare, en Italic, a Gyrene, en Egypte, partout 

Megara, into Italy, to Cyrene, into Egypt, every-place 

ou V esprit humain avait fait des progres*. 

where the 'understanding *human had made [of-the] advances, 

II avait environ quarante ans quand il fit 

He had lived about forty years when he made 

le voyage de Sicile pour voir V Etna. Denys? 

the voyage of Sicily in-order to-see [the] Etna. Dionysius, 

tyran de Syracuse, desira de F entretenir. La 

tyrant of Syracuse, wished to shim *converse-witb. The 

conversation roula sur le bonheur, sur la • justice, 

conversation turned on [the] happiness, on [the] justice, 

sur la veritable grandeur. Platon ayant soutenu 

on [the] true greatness. Plato having maintained 

que rien n' est si lache ni si malheureux qu' un 

that nothing — is so base nor so wretched as an 

prince injuste, Denys en colere lui dit: "Vous 

aprince *unjust, Dionysius in anger lo-him isaid: You 

parlez comme un radoteur." " Et vous comme un 

talk like a dotard. And you like a 

tyran," repondit Platon. Cette reponse pensa 

tyrant, replied Plato. This answer came-well-nigh 

lui couter la vie. Denys ne lui permit de s' 

'him »to-cost his life. Dionysius — 'him ^permitted to 'himself 

embarquer sur une galere qui retournait en Grece, 

icmbark on a galley which was-returning to Greece, 

qu' apres avoir exige du commandant qu' il le 

only after having required of-the commander that he 'him 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 263 

jetterait a la mer, ou qu' ii s' en deferait 

*should-cast into the sea, or that he ^himself *ofhim ishould-rid 

comme d' un vil esclave. II fut vendu, rachete, 

as of a worthless slave. He was sold, ransomed, 

et ramene dans sa patrie. Cluelque temps apres, 

and brought -back into his country. Some time afterwards, 

le roi de Syracuse? incapable de remords, mais 

•She king of Syracuse, incapable of remorse, but 

jaloux de F estime des Orecs, lui ecrivit; et 

desirous of the esteem of-the Greeks, no-him * wrote; and 

P ayant prie de P epargner dans ses discours, 

shim '-having ^begged to shim ispare in his discourses, 

il n' en re cut que cette reponse meprisante: 

he — ^from-him ^received only this sanswer ^contemptuous: 

*'Je n' ai pas assez de loisir pour me souvenir 

I — have not senough — ^leisure for ^myself tbethinking 

de Denys.^ 

of Dionysius. 

A son retour, Flaton se-fit un genre 

At his return, Plato aecnstomed-himself-to a style 

de vie dont il ne s 9 est plus ecarteo II a 

of life from-whieh fee, a »o *has more deviated. He has 

continue de s 9 abstenir des affaires publiques, 

continued to ^himself 4 withhold from-the ^affairs ^public, 

parce-que, suivant lui, nous ne pouvons plus etre 

because, aceording-to him, we s no *can longer be 

conduits au bien ni par la persuasion, ni 

led to-[the] good neither through {the] persuasion, nor 

par la farce ; mais il a recueilli les lumieres 

through [the] force; but he has gathered the lights 

xeparses dans les eontrees qu' il avait parcourues; et, 

scattered in the countries which he had traversed; and, 

conciiiant, autant qu' il est possible, les opinions des 

reconciling, as-much as it is possible, the opinions of-the 

philosopkes qui P avaient precede, il en composa 

philosophers who shim *had ^preceded, he *of-them ^composed 

un systeme qu' il developpa dans ses ecrits et dans 

a system which he developed in his writings and in 

ses conferences. Ses ouvrages sont en forme de 

his conversations. His works are in form of 



264 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

dialogues. Socrate en est le principal interlocuteur ; 

dialogues. Socrates sof-them *is athe aprincipal 'interlocutor ; 

et 1' on pretend qu' a la faveur de ce nom, il 

and — people pretend that by the means of this name, he 

accredite les idees qu' il a coneues ou adoptees, 

gives-authority-to the ideas which he has conceived or adopted. 

Son merite lui a fait des ennemis : il 

His merit shim *has *made [of-the] enemies: he 

s' en est attire Iui-meme en versant dans 

*on-himself *some 3 has adrawn *him - self by infusing into 

ses ecrits une ironie piquante contre plusieurs auteurs 

his writings a airony ^pungent against several ^authors 

celebres. II est vrai qu' il la met sur le compte 

^eminent. It is true that he sit iput on the score 

de Socrate ; mais V adresse avec Iaquelle il la manie, 

of Socrates; but the skill with which he *U manages, 

et differents traits qu' on pourrait citer de lui, prouvent 

and several traits that one might quote of him, prove 

qu' il avait, du-moins dans sa jeunesse, assez de 

that he had, at-least in his youth, ^enough — 

penchant a la satire . Cependant ses ennemis ne 

^propensity to [the] satire. However his enemies — 

troublent point le repos qu' entretiennent dans 

disturb not the tranquillity which ^maintain Tin 

son cceur ses succes ou ses vertus. II a des 

«his »heart *his ^successes aor «his ^virtues. He has [of-the] 

vertus en effet ; les-unes qu' il a revues de la 

virtues in deed ; some which he has received from [the^ 

nature, d' autres qu' il a eu la force d' acquerir 

nature, [of] others which he has had the energy to acquire, 

II etait ne violent; il est a-present le plus-doux et 

He was born passionate; he is now the mildest and 

le plus patient des hommes. L' amour de la 

the most patient of-[the] men. The love of [the] 

gloire ou de la celebrite me parait etre sa premiere* 

glory or of [the] celebrity *to-me *appears to-be his first, 

ou plutot son unique passion ; je pense qu' il eprouve 

or rather his only passion ; I think that he experiences 

cette jalousie dont il est si souvent 1' objet. Difficile 

that jealousy of-which he is so often the object. Difficult 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 265 

et reserve pour ceux qui courent la meme carriere 

and reserved for those who pursue the same course 

que lui, ouvert et facile pour ceux qu' il y conduit 

as he, open and easy for those whom he *in-it Pleads 

lui-meme, il a toujours vecu avec les autres disciples 

him - self, he has always lived with the other disciples 

de Socrate dans la contrainte ou 1' inimitie; avec 

of Socrates in [the] constraint or [the] enmity; with 

ses propres disciples, dans la confiance et la 

his own disciples, in [the] confidence and [the] 

familiarite, sans cesse attentif a leurs progres 

familiarity, without intermission attentive to their advances 

ainsi qu' a leurs besoins, dirigeant sans 

in-like-manner as to their deficiencies, directing without 

faiblesse et sans rigidite leurs penchants vers des 

weakness and without severity their inclinations towards [of-thej 

objets honnetes, et les corrigeant par ses exemples 

^objects ^honourable, and Hhem ^correcting by his examples 

plutot que par ses lemons. De leur cote, ses disciples 

rather than by his lessons. On their part, his disciples 

poussent le respect jusqu' a V hommage, et V 

push [the] respect even to [the] homage, and [the] 

admiration jusqu' au fanatisme : vous en verrez 

admiration even to-[the] fanaticism: you asome iwill-see 

meme qui affectent de tenir les epaules hautes et 

even who affect to keep their shoulders high and 

arrondies pour avoir quelque ressemblance avec 

rounded in-order to-have some resemblance with 

lui. C est ainsi qu' en Ethiopie, lorsque le 

him. It is thus that in Ethiopia, when the 

souverain a quelque defaut de conformation, les 

sovereign has some defect of conformation, the 

courtisans prennent le parti de s' estropier 

courtiers take the course of ^themselves *maiming 

pour lui ressembler. t 

in-order «him Uo-resemble. BARTHELEMY. 

M 



266 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 



Le Monde d' Insectes sur une Plante* 

The World of Insects on a Plant. 

Un jour d'ete, pendant que je travaillais a mettre en 

One aday ^summer's, whilst that I was-labouring to put in 

ordre quelques observations sur les harmonies de ce 

order some observations upon the harmonies of this 

globe, j' apercus, sur un fraisier qu' on avail 

globe, I perceived, upon a strawberry-plant which sorae-one had 

place par hasard sur ma fenetre, de petites mouches 

placed by chance on my window, [of} small flies 

si jolies, que 1' envie me prit de les decrire* 

so beautiful, that the fancy *me ^seized to *them ^describe. 

Le lendemain j' en vis d' une autre sorte, que je 

The next-day I *some *saw of an other kind, which I 

decrivis aussi, V en observai, pendant trois 

described likewise. I ^of-them ^observed, during three 

semaines, trente-sept especes toutes differentes ; mais 

weeks, thirty-seven species all different; but 

il y en vint a la fin un si grand nombre, 

there 'there «of-them »came at the last a ^so sgreat ^number, 

et d' une si grande variete, que j' abandonnai cette 

and of a aso agreat ^variety, that I relinquished that 

etude, quoique tres-amusante, parce-que je manquais de 

study, though very amusing, because I failed of 

loisir, ou, pour dire la verite, d' expressions. 

leisure, or, to speak the truth, of words. 

Les mouches que j' avais observees etaient toutes 

The flies which I had observed were all 

distinguees les unes des autres par leurs couleurs, 

distinguished the ones from-the others by their colours, 

leurs formes et leurs allures. II y en avait de 

their forms and their ways. There athere *some twere [of] 

dorees, d' argentees, de bronzees, de tigrees, 

golden, [of] silvery, [of] bronze-coloured, [of] spotted, 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 267 

de rayees, de bleues, de vertes, de rembrunies, de 

[of] striped, [of] blue, [of] green, [of] dark, [of] 

chatoyantes. Les-unes avaient la tete arrondie coriime 

sparkling. Some had the head rounded like 

un turban; d' autres, allongee en pointe. A 

a turban; [of] others, lengthened into a point. In 

quelques-unes, elle paraissait obscure comme un point 

some ones, it appeared dark like a point 

de velours noir; elle etincelait a d' autres comme 

of ^velvet iblack ; it sparkled in [of] others like 

un rubis. II n' y avait pas moins de variete 

a ruby. There — sthere i\vas 2 not siess — ^variety 

dans leurs ailes. Quelques-unes les avaient longues 

in their wings. Some ones sthem ihad long 

et brillantes comme des lames de nacre ; d' 

and brilliant like [of-the] lamince of mother-of-pearl; [of] 

autres, courtes et larges, qui ressemblaient a des 

others, short and wide, which bore-resemblance to [of-the] 

reseaux de la plus-fine gaze. Chacune avait sa 

net-works of the finest gauze. Each had its 

maniere de les porter et de s' en servir. 

mode of athem ^carrying and of aof-them ^making-use. 

Les unes les portaient perpend iculairement, les autres, 

The ones athem »carried perpendicularly, the others, 

horizontalement, et semblaient prendre plaisir a les 

horizontally, and seemed to-take pleasure in athem 

etendre. Celles-ci volaient en tourbillonnant a 

^spreading. The-latter flew by whirling-about after 

la maniere des papillons ; celles-la s' 

the manner of-the butterflies; the-former themselves 

elevaient en 1' air, en se dirigeant contre le 

traised into the air, by themselves ^directing against the 

vent, par un mecanisme a-peu-pres semblable a celui 

wind, by a mechanism very-nearly similar to that 

des cerfs-volants de papier qui s'elevent en formant 

of-the kites of paper which rise by forming 

avec 1' axe du vent un angle, je crois, de vingt-deux 

with the axis of-the wind an angle, I suppose, of twenty -two 

degres et demi. Les-unes abordaient sur cette plante 

degrees and a half. Some landed on that plant 



268 COLLOTS PROGRESSIVE 

pour y deposer leurs oeufs, d' autres, simplement 

in-order *there Uo-deposit stheir 3 eggs, [of] others, merely » 

pour s' y mettre a V abri du 

in-order ^themselves athere Uo-place at [the] shelter from-the 

soleil; mais la plupart y venaient pour des 

sun; but the most-part athither *came for [of-the] 

raisons qui m' etaient tout-a-fait inconnues ; car 

reasons which to-me were entirely unknown; for 

les-unes allaient et venaient dans un mouvement 

some went and came in a ^movement 

perpetuel, tandis-que d' autres ne remuaient que la 

iperpetual, whilst [of] others — moved only the 

partie posterieure de leur corps. II y en 

spart ^hinder of their bodies. There nhere 3 of-them 

avait beaucoup qui etaient immobiles, et qui etaient 

iwere ^many which were motionless, and which were 

peut-etre occupees, comme moi, a observer. Je 

perhaps busy, like me, in observing. I 

dedaignai, comme suffisamment connues, toutes les 

disregarded, as sufficiently known, all the 

tribus des autres insectes qui etaient attirees sur mon 

tribes of-the other insects which were attracted on my 

fraisier, telles que les limagons, qui se 

strawberry-plant, such as the snails, which ^themselves 

nichaient sur ses feuilles, les papillons qui voltigeaient 

inestled on its leaves, the butterflies which fluttered 

autour, les scarabees qui en labouraient les racines, 

around, the beetles which ^of-it ^ploughed «the aroots, 

les petits vers qui trouvaient les moyens de vivre 

the little worms which found the means to live 

dans le parenchyme, c' est a dire, dans la seule 

in the pulp, that is to say, in the aalone 

epaisseur d' une feuille ; les guepes et les mouches a 

Uhickness of a leaf; the wasps and the flies with 

mieJ qui bourdonnaient autour de ses fleurs, les 

honey which buzzed around — its flowers, the 

pucerons qui en sucaient les tiges, les fourmis 

grubs which «of-it ^sucked »the ^stalks, the ants 

qui lechaient les pucerons; enfin, les araignees qui, 

which licked-up the grubs; in-fine, the spiders which, 



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pour attraper ces differentes proies, tendaient leurs 

an order to-catch these different preys, spread their 

filets dans le voisinage. 

nets in the neighbourhood. 

Q,uelque petits que fussent ces objets, ils etaient 

However small that smight-be Uhese ^objects, they were 

dignes de mon attention, puisqu' ils avaient merite 

worthy of my attention, since they had merited 

celle de la nature. Je ne pouvais leur refuser une 

that of [the] nature. I snot x could *them 3 re fuse a 

place dans son histoire, puisqu' elle leur en avait 

place in her history, since she sthem aone ihad 

donne une dans 1' univers. A plus-forte raison, 

agiven -*a in the universe. For stronger reason, 

si j' avais ecrit 1' histoire de mon fraisier, il 

if I had written the history of my strawberry-plant, it 

eut fallu en tenir compte. Les 

would-have been-necessary 3 f-them *to-keep ^account. [The] 

plantes sont les habitations des insectes, et 1' on 

plants are the habitations of-[the] insects, and — a-man 

ne fait point 1' histoire d' une ville sans parler de 

— relates not the history of a city without speaking of 

ses habitants. D'ailleurs mon fraisier n' etait 

its inhabitants. Moreover my strawberry-plant — was 

point dans son lieu nature!, en pleine campagne, sur 

not in its apiace ^natural, in open country, on 

la lisiere d' un bois, ou sur le bord d' un ruisseau, 

the edge of a wood, or on the border of a rivulet, 

oii il eut ete frequente par bien d' autres 

where it might-have been frequented by many — other 

especes d' animaux. II etait dans un pot de-terre, 

species of animals. It was in an spot 1 earthen, 

au milieu des fumees de Paris. Je ne 1' observais 

in-the midst of the smokes of Paris. I — sit ^observed 

qu' a des moments perdus ; je ne connaissais point 

only in [of-the] ^moments ispare; I — knew not 

les insectes qui le visitaient dans le cours de la 

the insects which *jt ^visited in the course of the 

journee, encore moins ceux qui n' y venaient 

^ day, still less those which — ^thither *came 



270 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

que la nuit, attires par de simples emanations, 

only in the night, attracted by [of] mere emanations, 

ou peut-etre par des lumieres phosphoriques qui 

or perhaps by [of- the] lights ^phosphoric which 

nous echappent. J' ignorais quels etaient ceux 

^us 'escape. I was-ignorant-of what ^ we re Uhose 

qui le frequentaient pendant les autres saisons de F 

which 2 it ^frequented during the other seasons of the 

annee, et le reste de ses relations avec les reptiles, 

year, and the rest of its relations with the reptiles, 

les amphibies, les poissons, les oiseaux, les quadrupedes, 

the amphibia, the fishes, the birds, the quadrupeds, 

et les hommes surtout, qui comptent pour rien 

and [the] men especially, who count for nothing 

tout ce qui n' est pas a leur usage. 

all that which — is not for their use. 

Mais il ne suffisait pas de 1' observer, pour 

But it — sufficed not to sit ^observe, Ho 

ainsi dire, du haut de ma grandeur; car, dans ce 

»so say, from-the height of my grandeur; fur, in that 

cas, ma science n' eut pas egale celle d' une 

case, my knowledge — *would-shave *not equalled that of one 

des mouches qui 1' habitaient. II n' y en 

of-the flies which *it ^inhabited. There — ethere «one 

avait pas une seule qui, le considerant avec ses 

iwas 2not 3a «single which, «it ^viewing with its 

petits yeux spheriques, n' y dut distinguer une 

little *eyes ^spherical, ^not nhere imust acjjstinguish an 

infinite d' objets que je ne pouvais apercevoir qu' 

infinity of objects which I »not »could perceive but 

au microscope avec des recherches infmies. Leurs 

in -the microscope with [of-the] Researches infinite. Their 
yeux rnemes sont tres-superieurs a cet instrument, 

eyes even are very superior to that instrument, 

qui ne nous montre que les objets qui sont a son 

which — Ho us ishows only the objects which are at its 

foyer, c' est a dire a quelques lignes de distance, 

focus, that is to say at some-few lines of distance, 

tandis-qu' ils apereoivent, par un mecanisme qui nous 

whilst they perceive, by a mechanism which to-us 



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tuyaux, de 1' extremite desquels sortaient des 

tubes, from the extremity of-which issued [of-ijhe] 

gouttes de liqueur; et leurs canaux, ainsi que leurs 

drops of liquor; and their channels, as-wel! as their 

glandes, me paraissaient remplis d' un fluide 

glands, ato-me ^appeared filled with a afluid 

brillant. Sur d 5 autres especes de plantes, ces 

^brilliant. On [of] other species of plants, these 

poils et ces canaux se presentent avec des 

hairs and these channels ^themselves ^present with [of-the"; 

formes, des couleurs et des fluides differents* 

forms, [of-the] colours and [of-the] fluids different. 

Il-y-a meme des g]andes qui ressembient a 

There-are even [of-the] glands that bear-resemblance to 

des bassins ronds, carres ou rayonnants. 

[of-the] basins round, square or radiating. 

La nature n' a rien fait en vain. Quand elle 

[The] nature ^not *has ^aught »done in vain. When she 

dispose un lieu propre a etre habite, elle y met 

prepares a place fit to be inhabited, she athere iputs 

des animaux. Elle n 9 est pas bornee par la 

[of-the] ^animals. She — is not limited by the 

petitesse de 1' espace. Elle en a mis avec des 

smallness of the space. She 3some *has ^placed with [of-the] 

nageoires dans de simples gouttes d' eau, et en 

fins in [of] simple drops of water, and in 

si grand nombre, que le physicien Leeuwenhoek 

so great number, that the naturalist Leeuwenhoek 

en a compte des milliers. On peut done 

*ofthem *has ^counted [of-the] nhousands. We may then 

croire, par analogie, qu' il-y-a des animaux qui 

believe, by analogy, that there-are [of-the] animals which 

paissent sur les feuilles des plantes, comme les 

graze on the leaves of-the plants, like the 

bestiaux dans nos prairies; qui se couchent 

cattle in our meadows; which ^themselves ilay-^down 

a T ombre de leurs poils imperceptibles, et qui 

in the shade of their ahairs ^imperceptible, and which 

boivent, dans leurs glandes faconnees en soleils, des 

drink, in their glands fashioned into suns, [of-the] 



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liqueurs d" or et d' argent. Chaque partie des 

liquors of gold and of silver. Each part of-the 

rleurs doit ]eur offrir des spectacles dont nous 

flowers must ^to-them *ofTer [of-the] spectacles of-which we 

n' avons point d' idees. Les antheres jaunes des 

— have not any ideas. The ^anthers ^yellow of-the 

fleurs, suspendues sur des filets blancs, leur 

flowers, suspended on [of-the] ^filaments nvhite, ^to-them 

presentent de doubles solives d' or en equilibre 

spresent [of] double rafters of gold in equilibrium 

sur des colonnes plus belles que 1' i voire ; les 

on [of-the] columns more beautiful than [the] ivory; the 

corolles, des voutes de rub is et de topazes, d' une 

corollas, [of-the] vaults of rubies and of topazes, of an 

grandeur incommensurable ; les nectaires, des fleuves 

^grandeur ^immeasurable ; the nectaries, [of-the] rivers 

de sucre ; les autres parties de la floraison, des 

of sugar; the other parts of the blossom, [of-the] 

coupes, des urnes, des pavilions, des domes que 

cups, [of-the] urns, [of-the] pavilions, [of-the] domes which 

1' architecture et 1' orfevrerie des hommes n' 

the architecture and the goldsmith's-work of-[the] men — 

ont pas encore imites. 

have not yet imitated. 

Je ne dis point ceci par conjecture; car un 

I — say not this by conjecture ; for one 

jour, ayant examine au microscope des rleurs de 

day, having examined at-the microscope [of-the] flowers of 

thym, j' y distinguai, avec la-plus grande surprise, 

thyme, I there distinguished, with most great surprise, 

de superbes amphores a long col, d' une matiere 

[of] beautiful amphorre with long neck, of a material 

semblable a 1' amethyste, du goulot desquelles 

similar to the amethyst, from-the neck of-which 

semblaient sortir des lingots d' or fondu. Je n' 

seemed to-issue [of-the] ingots of 2gold ^melted. I — 

ai jamais observe la simple corolle de la plus-petite 

have never observed the simple corolla of the smallest 

fleur, que je ne 1' aie vue composee d' une 

flower, that I anc-t *it *have ^seen put-together after an 

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274 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

maniere admirable, derni transparente, parsemee 

^manner ^admirable, half transparent, strewed 

de brillants, et teinte des plus vives couleurs. 

with brilliants, and tinged with-the most lively colours. 

Les etres qui vivent sous leurs riches reflets, 

The beings that live under their rich reflections, 

doivent avoir d' autres idees que nous de la 

must have [of] other ideas than we of [the] 

lumiere et des autres phenomenes de la nature. 

light and of-the other phenomena of [the] nature. 

Une goutte de rosee qui s' infiltre dans les tuyaux 

One drop of dew which itself ^infiltrates into the 4 tubes 

capillaires et diaphanes d' une plante leur presente 

^capillary sand stransparent of a plant sto-them ipresehta 

des milliers de jets d' eau ; fixee en boule 

[of-the] thousands of jets of water; fixed in a ball 

a 1' extremite d' un de ses poils, un ocean sans 

at the extremity of one of its hairs, an ocean without 

rivage ; evaporee dans 1' air, une mer aerienne. 

shore; evaporated into the air, an ssea lacrial. 

lis doivent done voir les fluides monter, au-lieu 

They must then see the fluids ascend, instead 

de descendre ; s' arrondir, au-lieu de 

of descending; ^themselves imake-around, instead of 

se mettre de niveau; s'elever en 1' air, 

^themselves ^placing on a level ; rise in the air, 

au-lieu de tomber. Leur ignorance doit etre aussi 

instead of falling. Their ignorance must be as 

merveilleuse que leur science. Comme ils ne 

wonderful as their knowledge. As they — 

connaissent a-fond que 1' harmonie des plus-petits 

know thoroughly only the harmony of-the smallest 

objets, celle des grands doit leur echapper. Us 

objects, that of-the great must ^them ^escape. They 

ignorent, sans doute, qu' il-y-a des hommes, 

are-ignorant, without doubt, that there-are [of-the] men, 

et parmi les hommes, des savants qui 

and among [the] men, [of-the] learned men who 

connaissent tout, qui expliquent tout, qui, 

know every-thing, who explain every-thing, who, 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 275 

passagers comme eux, s'elancent dans un infini 

transitory like them, rush into an infinite 

qu' ils ne peuvent comprendre ; tandis-qu' eux, a 

which they »not »can comprehend ; whilst they, by 

la faveur de leur petitesse, en connaissent un autre 

the means of their smallness, *one 4 know ^an aother 

dans les dernieres divisions de la matiere et du 

in the most-minute divisions of [the] matter and of-[the] 

temps. Parmi ces etres ephemeres, se-doivent 

time. Among these beings ^ephemeral, must 

voir des jeunesses d' un matin, et des 

be-seen [of-the] youths of a morning, and [of-the] 

decrepitudes d' un jour. S' ils ont des histoires, 

decrepitudes of a day. If they have [of-the] histories, 

ils ont des mois, des annees, des siecles, des 

they have [of-the] months, [of-the] years, [of-the] ages, [of-the] 

epoques proportionnees a la duree d' une fleur. 

epochs proportioned to the duration of a flower. 

lis ont une autre chronologie que la-notre, comme 

They have an other chronology than ours, as 

ils ont une autre , hydraulique et une autre 

they have an other science of hydraulics and an other 

optique. Ainsi, a mesure "que 1' homme s'approche 

optics. Thus, in proportion as [the] man approaches 

des elements de la nature, Jes principes de sa 

[of]-the elements of [the] nature, the principles of his 

science s'evanouissent. 

knowledge vanish. 

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XCL 

Sensations du Premier Homme apres la 

Sensations of-the First Man after the 

Creation. 

Creation. 

Je me souviens de cet instant plein de joie et de 

I «me ^remember of that moment full of joy and of 

trouble ou je sentis, pour la premiere fois, ma 

confusion in-which I perceived, for the first time, my 

singuliere existence : je ne savais ce-que j ? etais, ou 

extraordinary existence: I snot *knew what I was, where 

j' etais, d'oa je venais. J' ouvris les yeux : quel 

I was, whence I came. I opened my eyes: what 

surcroit de sensation! la lumiere, la voute celeste, la 

increase of sensation] the light, the ^vault icelestial, the 

verdure de la terre, le cristaj. des eaux, tout 

verdure of the earth, the transparency of-the waters, every-thing 

m' occupait, m' animait, et me donnait un sentiment 

*me ^occupied, %e ^excited, and 2 me igave an ^feeling 

inexprimable de plaisir. Je cms d'abord que tous 

^inexpressible of pleasure. I believed at-first that all 

ces objets etaient en moi, et faisaient partie de 

these objects existed within me, and formed part of 

moi-meme. Je m' affermissais dans cette pensee 

myself. I ^myself iwas-establishing in that ^thought 

naissante, lorsque je tournai les yeux vers 1' astre 

»new-born, when I turned my eyes towards the planet 

de la lumiere ; son eclat me blessa ; je fermai 

of the light; its splendour ^me ^hurt; I ^shut 

involontairement la paupiere, et je sentis une legere 

»involuntarily my eyelid, and I felt a slight 

douleur. Dans ce moment d' obscurite je crus avoir 

pain. In that moment of darkness I thought to-have 

perdu tout mon etre. 

lost ^whole imy being. 



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277 



Afflige, saisi d' etonnement, je pensais a ce 

Afflicted, seized with astonishment, I was-thinking on this 

grand changement, quand tout a coup j' entendis des 

great change, when all at once I heard [of-the] 

sons : le chant des oiseaux, le murmure des airs, 

sounds:' the song of-the birds, the murmur of-the breezes, 

formaient un concert dont la douce impression me 

impression s m e 



formed 



concert of-which the sweet 



remuait jusqu' au fond de V ame; j' ecoutai long- 

istirred even to-the bottom of my soul ; I listened long 

temps, et je 

time, and I 



me persuadai bientot que cette harmonie 



^myself ^persuaded soon 



etait moi. 

was myself. 

Attentif, 

Attentive, 



occupe 

occupied 



that 


this 


harmony 


de 


ce 


nouveau 


with 


this 


new 



genre d' existence, j' 

kind of existence, I 



deja la lumiere, 

already the light, 



tout-entier 

wholly 

oubliais 

was-forgetting 

cette autre partie de mon etre que j' avais connue 

that other part of my being which I had known 

la premiere, lorsque je rouvris les yeux. Quelle joie 

the first, when I re-opened my eyes. What joy 

de me retrouver en possession de tant d' objets 

to ^myself *find- 3 again in possession of so-many — ^objects 



bri Hants ! Mon plaisir surpassa tout ce que j' avais 

^brilliant ! My pleasure surpassed all that which I had 



mille objets divers ; 

thousand ^objects ^different ; 



senti la premiere fois, et suspendit pour un temps le 

felt the first time, and suspended for a time the 

charmant effet des sons. 

charming effect of-the sounds. 

Je fixai mes regards sur 

I fixed my looks on 

je m'aper^us bientot que je pouvais perdre et retrouver 

I perceived soon that I could lose and recover 

ces objets, et que j' avais la puissance de detruire et 

those objects, and that I had the power of destroying and 

de reproduire a mon gre cette belle partie de moi- 

of re-producing at my liking this beautiful part of my- 

en 



meme; 


et, 


quoiqu' 


elle 


me 


parut 


immense 


self; 


and, 


although 


it 


ato-me 


»appeared 


immense 



278 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

grandeur, et par la quantite des accidents de 

magnitude, both through the quantity of-the accidents of 

lumiere et par la variete des couleurs, je eras 

light and through the variety of-the colours, I thought 

que tout etait contenu dans une portion de mon 

that every-thing was contained in a part of my 

etre. 

being. 

Je commences a voir sans emotion, et a 

I began to see without emotion, and to 

entendre sans trouble, lorsqu' un air leger, dont 

hear without uneasiness, when a ^breeze igentle, of-which 

je sentis la fraicheur, m' apporta des parfums 

I felt the coolness, no-me * brought [of-the] perfumes 

qui me causerent un epanouissement intime, et me 

which *me ^caused an Enlivening ^inward, and *me 

donnerent un sentiment d' amour pour moi-meme. 

igave a sentiment of love for myself. 

Agite par toutes ces sensations, presse par les 

Agitated by all these sensations, oppressed by the 

plaisirs d' une si belle et si grande existence, je 

pleasures of ean *so ^beautiful aand <so sgrand existence, I 

me-levai tout a coup, et je me sentis transports 

arose all at once, and I ^myself *felt carried 

par une force inconnue. Je ne fis qu' un pas; la 

by an apower ^unknown. I — made but one step ; the 

nouveaute de ma situation me rendit immobile, ma 

novelty of my situation *me ^rendered immovable, my 

surprise fut extreme; je eras que mon existence 

surprise was extreme; I thought that my existence 

fuyait: le mouvement que j' avais fait avait confondu 

was-escaping: the movement that I had made had confused 

les objets; je m' imaginais que tout etait en 

the objects; I ato-myself ^imagined that every-thing was in 

desordre. 

disorder. 

Je portai la main sur ma tete, je touchai mon 

I laid my hand on my head, I touched my 

front et mes yeux ; je parcourus mon corps : ma 

forehead and my eyes; I surveyed my body: my 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 279 

main me parut etre alors le principal organe de 

hand a to me ^appeared to-be then the principal organ of 

men existence. Ce-que je sentais dans cette partie 

aay existence. What I felt in that part 

eta.it si distinct et si complet, la jouissance m' en 

was so distinct and so complete, the possession ato-me *of-it 

paraissait si parfaite, en comparaison du plaisir que 

^appeared so perfect, in comparison of-the pleasure which 

m' avaient cause la lumiere et les sons, que je 

sto-me ehad 'caused Uhe flight sand nhe ssounds, that I 

m' attachai tout-entier a cette partie solide de 

^myself ^attached entirely to this spart tsubstantial of 

mon etre, et je sends que mes idees prenaient de 

my being, and I perceived that my ideas assumed [of] 

la consistance et de la realite. 

[the] consistence and [of] [the] reality. 

Tout ce que je touchais sur moi semblait 

All that which I touched on myself seemed 

rendre a ma main sentiment pour sentiment, et 

to-return to my hand feeling for feeling, and 

chaque attouchement produisait dans mon ame une 

every touch produced in my mind a 

double idee. 

double idea. 

Je ne fus pas long-temps sans m'apercevoir que 

I — was not long time without perceiving that 

cette faculte de sentir etait repandue dans toutes les 

this faculty of feeling was distributed into all the 

parties de mon etre ; je reconnus bientot les limites de 

parts of my frame; I recognised soon the limits of 

mon existence qui m' avait paru d'abord d' 

my existence which no-me »had Appeared at-first of 

une etendue immense. 

an Extent ^immense. 

J' avais jete les yeux sur mon corps ; je le jugeais 

I had cast my eyes over my body; I *it fudged 

d' un volume enorme, et si grand, que tous les objets 

of an asize 'enormous, and so great, that all the objects 



280 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

qui avaient frappe mes yeux ne me paraissaient, en 

which had struck my eyes — ^to-me tappeared, in 

comparaison, que des points lumineux. 

comparison, but [of-the] ^points iluminous. 

Je m' examinai long-temps : je me regardais 

I ^myself ^examined long time : I ^myself iJooked-at 

avec plaisir, je suivais ma main des yeux, et j' 

with pleasure, I followed my hand with-my eyes, and I 

observais ses mouvements. J' eus sur tout cela ]es 

observed its motions. I had about sail lit the 

idees les-plus etranges ; je croyais que le mouvement 

aideas »most ^strange ; I thought that the motion 

de ma main n' etait qu' une espece d' existence 

of my hand — was only a species of ^existence 

fugitive, une succession de choses semblables ; je 1' 

^fugitive, a succession of ^objects *like; I ^it 

approchai de mes yeux; elJe me parut alors 

»drew-3near [of] my eyes; it sto-me ^seemed then 

plus-grande que tout mon corps, et elle fit disparaitre 

larger than all my body, and it caused to-disappear 

a ma vue un nombre infini d' objets. 

from my view an ^number infinite of objects. 

Je commencai a soupconner qu' il-y-avait de 1' 

I began ' to suspect that there-was [of] [the] 

illusion dans cette sensation qui me venait par les 

illusion in that sensation which ^to-me icame through my 

yeux. J' avais vu distinctement que ma main n* 

eyes. I had perceived distinctly that my hand — 

etait qu' une petite partie de mon corps, et je ne 

was only a small part of my body, and I snot 

pouvais comprendre qu' elle fut augmentee au 

»was-aable to-understand that it should-be augmented to-the 

point de me paraitre d' une grandeur demesuree. 

point of ato-me ^appearing of an ^size ^excessive. 

Je resolus done de ne me fier qu' au 

I ^resolved ^therefore to — ^myself Urust only to-the 

toucher, qui ne m' avait pas encore trompe, et 

sense-oftouch, which — erne iliad *not 3as-yet ^deceived, and 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 281 

<T etre en garde contre toutes les autres faeons de 

to be on guard against all the other ways of 

sentir et de voir. 

feeling and of seeing. 

Cette precaution me fut utile : je m' etais 

This precaution no-me nvas Useful : I 3 myself ihad 

remis en mouvement, et je marchais, la tete haute 

aset-*again in motion, and I was-walking, my head raised 

et tournee vers le ciel, quand je me heurtai 

and turned towards the sky, when I ^myself *hit 

legerement contre un palmier. Saisi d' effroi, je 

slightly against a palm-tree. Seized with terror, I 

portai ma main sur ce corps etranger; je le jugeai 

laid my hand upon that ^body ^strange; I sit fudged 

tel, parce-qu' il ne me rendit pas sentiment pour 

such, because it — no-me ^returned *not feeling for 

sentiment. Je m' en detournai avec une espece 

feeling. I amyself 4from-it Uurned-saway with a sort 

d' horreur, et je m'apercus, pour la premiere fois, qu' 

of horror, and I perceived, for the first time, that 

il-y-avait quelque chose hors de moi. 

there-was some thing outside of me. 

Plus agite par cette nouvelle decouverte que je ne 

More agitated by this new discovery than I — 

1' avais ete par toutes ies autres, j' eus peine a 

*so ihad sbeen by all the others, I had difficulty to 

me rassurer ; et, apres avoir medite sur cet 

amyself ire-assure ; and, after having meditated on this 

evenement, je conclus que je devais juger des objets 

event, I concluded that I must judge of-the ^objects 

exterieurs comme j' avais juge des parties de mon 

^external as I had judged of-the parts of my 

corps, et qu' il-n'y-avait que le toucher qui put 

body, and that there- was only the sense-of-touch that could 

m' assurer de leur existence. 

•me ipersuade of their existence. 

Je cherchais done a toucher tout ce que je 

I sought then to touch all that which I 

voyais: je voulais toucher le soleil; j' etendais les bras 

saw : I wished to-touch the sun ; I extended my arms 

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282 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

pour embrasser 1' horizon, et je ne trouvais que le 

in-order to-embrace the horizon, and I — found but the 

vide des airs. 

void of- the air. 

A chaque experience que je tentais, je tombais 

At every experiment which I attempted, I fell 

de surprise en surprise ; car tous les objets paraissaient 

from surprise into surprise ; for all the objects appeared. 

etre egalement pres de moi ; et ce ne fut qu' apres 

to-be equally near — me ; and it — was only after 

une infinite d' epreuves que j' appris a me servir 

an infinity of trials that I learned to ^myself *serve 

de mes yeux pour guider ma main ; et, comme elle 

with my eyes in-order to-guide my hand; and, as it 

me donnait des idees toutes differentes des 

%e *gave [of-the] ideas all different from-the 

impressions que je recevais par le sens de la 

impressions which I received through the sense of the 

vue, mes sensations n' etant pas d' accord entre 

sight, my sensations — being not in harmony among 

elles, mes jugements n' en etaient que plus 

them selves, my judgments — thence were only more 

imparfaits, et ]e total de mon etre n' etait encore 

imperfect, and the whole of my being — was as-yet 

pour moi-meme qu' une existence en confusion. 

for myself only an existence in confusion. 

Profondement occupe de moi, de ce-que j' 

Deeply occupied with myself, with what I 

etais, de ce-que je pouvais etre, les contrarietes 

was, with what I was-able to-be, the difficulties 

que je venais-d'eprouver m' humilierent. Plus je 

which I had-just-experienced %e ^humbled. The more I 

reflechissais, plus il se presentait de 

reflected, the more there themselves ^presented — 

doutes. Lasse de tant d' incertitudes, fatigue 

doubts. Wearied with so-many — uncertainties, fatigued 

des mouvements de mon ame, mes genoux 

with-the movements of my mind, my knees 

flechirent, et je me trouvai dans une situation de 

bent, and I ^myself »found in a situation of 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 283 



repos. Cet etat de tranquillite donna de nouvelles 

repose. This state 01 tranquillity gave [of] fresh 

forces a mes sens. 

forces to my senses. 

V etais assis a 1' ombre d' un bel arbre; 

I was seated in the shade of a beautiful tree; 

des fruits d' une couleur vermeille descendaient, 

[of-the] fruits of a «hue * vermilion hung-down, 

en forme de grappes, a ]a portee de ma main. 

in form of grapes, at the reach of my hand. 

Je les touchai legerement : aussitot ils se 

I ^them Uouched lightly: instantly they ^themselves 

separerent de la branche, comme la figue s' 

^separated from the branch, as the fig aitseif 

en separe dans le temps de sa maturite. 

sfrom-it separates at the time of its ripeness. 

J' avais saisi un de ces fruits ; je m' imaginai 

I had seized one of these fruits; I amyself ^imagined 

avoir fait une conquete, et je me glorifiai de la 

to-have- made a conquest, and I ^myself ^glorified for the 

faculte que je sentais de pouvoir contenir dans 

faculty which I perceived of being-able to-contain in 

ma main un autre etre. Sa pesanteur, quoique 

my hands an other being. Its weight, though 

peu sensible, me parut une resistance animee, 

scarcely sensible, sto-me ^appeared an ^resistance ^animated, 

que je me faisais un plaisir de vaincre. J' 

which I ato-myself *made a pleasure to overcome. I 

avais approche ce fruit de mes yeux; j' en 

had ibrought-^near sthis afruit [of] my eyes; I *of-it 

considerais la forme et les couleurs. Une odeur 

'examined ^the 3form *and Hhe ^colours. A *odour 

delicieuse me le fit approcher davantage ; il 

^delicious <me ejt amade 5bring-»near 'more ; it 

etait pres de mes levres ; je tirais a longues 

was near — my lips; I drew with long 

inspirations le parfum, et je goutais a longs traits 

inspirations the perfume, and 1 tasted with long draughts 

les plaisirs de 1' odorat. J' etais interieurement 

the pleasures of the sense-of-smell. I 'was inwardly 



284 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE 

rempli de cet air embaume. Ma bouche s' ouvrit 

filled with this *air ^scented. My mouth itself ^opened 

pour 1' exhaler; elle se rouvrit pour en 

in-order ait no-exhale ; it aitself ire-opened in-order *of-it 

reprendre : je sentis que je possedais un odorat 



ito-take-again: I 


felt 


that I 


possessed an ^sense-of-smell 


interieur plus 


fin, 


plus 


delicat encore que le 


^internal more 


fine, 


more 


delicate still than the 



premier; enfm, je goutai. 

former; at-last, I tasted. 

Quelle saveur! quelle nouveaute de sensation! 

What savour! what novelty of sensation! 

Jusque-la je n' avais eu que des plaisirs ; le gout 

Until-then I — had had only [of-the] pleasures; [the] taste 

me donna le sentiment de la volupte. La 

2to-me igave the sensation of [the] delight. The 

persuasion de la jouissance fit naitre 1' idee de 

conviction of [the] enjoyment caused to-be-born the idea of 

la possession. Je crus que la substance de ce 

[the] possession. I thought that the substance of that 

fruit etait de venue la-mienne, et que j' avais la 

fruit was become mine, and that I had the 

faculte de transformer ' les etres. 

faculty to transform [the] beings. 

Flatte de cette idee de puissance, incite par le 

Flattered with this idea of power, incited by the 

plaisir que j' avais senti, je cueillis un second et un 

pleasure which I had felt, I plucked a second and a 

troisieme fruit ; je ne me-lassais pas d' exercer 

third fruit ; I — «did-3grow-*weary ^not of exercising 

ma main pour satisfaire mon gout ; mais une langueur 

my hand to satisfy my taste; but an ^languor 

agreable, s' emparant peu a peu de tous mes sens, 

•agreeable, ^itself ^possessing little by little of all my senses, 

appesantit mes membres, et suspendit 1' activite de 

weighed-down my limbs, and suspended the activity of 

mon ame. Je jugeai de mon inaction par la mollesse 

my mind. I judged of my inaction by the faintness 

de mes pensees ; mes sensations emoussees arrondissaient 

of my thoughts; my ^sensations ^dulled rounded 



INTERLINEAR FRENCH READER. 285 

tous les objets, et ne me presentaient que des 

all the objects, and — *to-rne presented only [of-the] 

images faibles et mal terminees. Dans cet instant, 

*images ^feeble *and HU ^finished. At that instant, 

mes yeux, devenus inutiles, se fermerent, et 

my eyes, become useless, ^themselves ^closed, and 

ma tete, n' etant plus soutenue par la force des 

my head, «no *being longer supported by the strength of-the 

muscles, se-pencha pour trouver un appui sur le gazon. 

muscles, bent in-order to-find a support on the turf. 

Tout fut efface, tout disparut La trace de 

Every-thing was effaced, every-thing disappeared. The track of 

mes pensees fut interrompue, je perdis le sentiment 

my thoughts was interrupted, I lost the consciousness 

de mon existence* Ce sommeil fut profond; mais je 

of my existence. That sleep was profound; but I 

ne sais s' il fut de longue duree, n' ay ant 

*not iknow whether it was of long duration, — shaving 

point encore 1' idee du temps, et ne pouvant le 

*not as-yet the idea of-[the] time, and not being-able *it 

mesurer. Mon re veil ne fut qu 9 une seconde 

no-measure. My awakening — was only a second 

naissance, et je sentis seulement que j' avais cesse 

birth t and I perceived merely that I had ceased 

d' etre. Cet aneantissement que je venais-d'eprouver 

to exist. This annihilation which I had-just-experienced 

me donna quelque idee de crainte, et me fit 

sme igave some idea of fear, and *me icaused 

sentir que je ne devais pas exister toujours. 

lo-perceive that I — must not exist always, 

P eus une autre inquietude : je ne savais 

I had an other uneasiness: I ^not *knew 

si je n' avais pas laisse dans le sommeil 

whether I — had not let-go in the sleep 

quelque partie de mon etre. P essayai mes sens; 

some part of my being. I tried my senses; 

je cherchai a me reconnaitre. 

I endeavoured to ^myself ^recognize. 

Dans cet instant, 1' astre du jour, sur la 

At that instant, the planet of-the day, on the 



286 COLLOT'S PROGRESSIVE FRENCH READER, 
fin de sa course, eteignit son flambeau, Je 

close of its course, extinguished its light. I 

m'apereus a-peine que je perdais le sens de la 

^perceived ^scarcely that I was-losing the sense of [the] 

vue ; j' existais trop pour craindre de cesser d* 

sight; I existed too-much to be-afraid of ceasing to 

etre; et ce fut vainement que 1' obscurite ou 

exist; and it was vainly that the darkness in-whicfo. 

je me trouvai me rappela 1' idee de mon premiei 

I ^myself 1 found *ta-me ^recalled the idea of my first 

sommeiL 

sleep. BUFFQBL 



GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY, 



CONSISTING OF 



GRAMMATICAL NOTES REFERRED TO FROM THE 
FOREGOING FRENCH TEXT. 



* The indefinite article is omitted before a noun employed 
adjeetively, that is, a noun that explains the nature of what 
precedes. 

b Literally of This preposition is sometimes rendered by 
with, in, at, for, to, from, by, on 9 -&a 

c This is a reflective verb, which, like many others, can- 
not be literally rendered into English. It means: they were 
amusing themselves by talking. Reflective verbs are con- 
jugated with two pronouns, one of which is the subject, the 
other, the object of the action ; as, 

Je me divertis. 
I ^myself ^divert. 

Sometimes the particle y or en is put between the pronoun 
and the verb ; as : Je nC y trouverai, I shall repair thither. 

d The negative in French is ne pas, or ne point, which is 
often divided; but pas, or point is omitted when, after ne, 
comes a word expressing want or absence, like jamais, never ; 
nucun, any, &c. ; as, 

Je ne la vois jamais. 

I — 3her *see * never. 

e En is used as a pronoun, a preposition, and an adverb : as 
a pronoun, it signifies some, any, of it, of him, of her, of them, 
&c. ; as a preposition, in, into, while ; and as an adverb, thence, 
away ; as, 

II en vient. 
He sfrom-thence 'comes. 

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288 GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY. 

f On, indefinite pronoun, is rendered one, some one, people, 
we, they, &c. It always requires the verb in the third person 
singular. 

& Be is used when there is no comparison ; as : Elle a plus 
de vingt ans, She is more than twenty ; but que is used when 
there is comparison ; as : Elle est plus belle que sa scewr, She 
is more beautiful than her sister, 

h La and ci are employed after nouns and pronouns to give 
more strength to the sense, or better to designate the object ; 
as : cet homme-ld, that man ; cet animal-ci, this animal. 

1 Bien, is the only adverb of quantity that takes the article 
after it ; the others, like beaucoup, plus, rnoins, take only the 
preposition de, Bien de la peine, much trouble. 

i Literally, of to have. The participle present is never used 
in French, after any preposition, except en ,• as : en marchant, 
in walking* 

k In sentences of this kind, the substantive being taken in 
a partitive sense, there are always some word, or words under- 
stood. In French, it is une portion, un morceau, quelques-uns> 
&c, the equivalent of which is, some or any. In English, 
some, or any, is sometimes understood, but of the is seldom ex- 
pressed; as, 



[duelques-uns] des raisins. 
Some [of-the] grapes. 

[Un-morceau] du pain. 

Some [of-the] bread. 

Ont - ils [une-portion] de la charite? 
Have they any [of] [the] charity? 






1 Y is both a pronoun, and an adverb : as a pronoun it sig- 
nifies to it, to them, by it ; as an adverb, there, thither, 

m Literally, am. The compound tenses of all reflective 
verbs are formed with the auxiliary etre> to be. 



GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY. 289 

n When we express an action over, or a sensation in, any 
part of the body, we use the definite article before the noun; as: 

J' ai mal a la tete. 
Literally, I have pain at the head. 

That is : I have the headach. 

o When the adjective precedes the noun taken in a partitive 
sense, the article is omitted ; as : 



J' ai de bonnes plumes. 
I have — good pens. 



See note c . 



p The letter V is placed between et and on, for the sake of 
euphony only. 

q llfaut may be rendered it must, we must, it is necessary, 
one ought, we ought, &c, and is, like all impersonal verbs, 
used only in the third person singular, with the pronoun il, it. 

r The comparative of equality is formed by putting aussi, 
as, before the adjective, and que, as, after it; as: 

II est aussi grand que son frere. 
He is as tall as his brother. 

8 Plus grand, more great. The comparative of superiority 
is formed by putting plus, more, before the adjective, and que, 
than, after it. We have no change of termination like the 
English, who can say greater. 

1 Son travail. Literally, his labour. In French, the ad- 
jective possessive agrees with the object possessed, and not 
with the possessor, as in English. For instance,, when I speak 
of a book belonging to a lady, I say: son livre, her book; and 
when I speak of a book belonging to a man, I use the same 
pronoun : son livre, his book. Because livre is masculine. 

u This pronoun is rendered ones, in the plural ; as : Si vous 
voulez voir de beaux tableaux, il en a, If you desire to see fine 
pictures, he has got fine ones. But for objects which admit of 
no division, it is rendered some, of it, &c. 
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290 GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY. 

v When two substances are joined with de, the second of 
which shows the nature or sort of the first, they are generally 
expressed in English by transposing the words and omitting de ; 
as : un pont de pierre, a stone bridge. 

* De, after prepositions and adverbs, not being consonant 
with the genius of the English language, is often untranslated, 
to avoid incumbrance. 

y Literally, to. This preposition is sometimes rendered at, 
by, in, &c. 

z Void. A contraction of vois, see, and id, here. It is 
also used in opposition with voild ; as, void mon livre, voild le 
vdtre, here is my book, there is yours. 

aa The superlative is formed by prefixing the article to the 
adverbs plus, moins, more, less ; and to the adjectives meilleur, 
moindre, pire, better, less, worse. But we have no different 
. ending like the English, who can say : the wisest, or the most 
wise, le plus sage. 

ah Literally, it. The French use this pronoun, or cela, that, 
which has neither feminine nor plural; whereas the English 
use the adverb so ; as : Je V espere, I hope so. 

ac We use ne after the verbs craindre, avoir peur, trembler, 
apprehender, if the state of uneasiness which they express still 
continue ; as : Je tremble que cela rC arrive, I tremble lest that 
will happen. But if that state has ceased, we omit it ; as : Je 
ne crains plus qu* il arrive, I am no longer afraid of his 
coming. 

ad The pronoun possessive absolute is always, in French, 
preceded by the article, which, like the pronoun, takes the 
gender and number of the noun to which it relates ; as : voild 
vos plumes, void les miennes, there are your pens, here are 
mine. 



GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY. 291 

ae The reciprocal verbs are conjugated with two pronouns, 
like the pronominal verbs; as: entre-donner, to give each 
other. 

af Soit, may be, is the subjunctive, which we use after inter- 
rogations, whereas the English use the indicative ; as : croyez- 
vous q\C il vienne ? do you think he will come ? 

*s When two substances are thus joined with the preposi- 
tion a, the second denotes the manner or form of the first ; as : 
animal a longues oreilles, animal with long ears; moulin a 
vent, windmill. The second substantive denotes likewise the 
use which the first is designed for ; as : verve a vin, wine-glass ; 
arme a feu, fire-arm. 

ah Literally, Hive, or am living. When the state or action 
still continues, we use the present of the indicative, whereas 
the English use the preterite indefinite ; as : II y a deux jours 
qu' elle est malade, There are two days that she is sick ; that 
is : she has been sick these two days. 

ai We use ne after avant que, when the action expressed 
by the verb which follows it, is doubtful ; but we omit it when 
there is no doubt in the action ; as : he roi voulut voir ce 
chef-d? ozuvre (le Tartufe) avant meme qu* il fut acheve, The 
king wished to see his master-piece even before it was finished. 

a J The infinitive is sometimes rendered by the passive, 
which is more consonant with the genius of the English ; as : 
il se fait comprendre, he makes himself understood ; je V ai 
entendu chanter, (speaking of a song), I heard it sung ; &c. 

ak After the verbs douter, desesperer, disconvenir, nier, 
used negatively, we always put ne ; as : Ne desesperez pas que 
ce moyen ne vous reussisse, Do not despair of the success of 
this means ; Je ne nie pas que cela ne soit, I do not deny that 
it is so. 



292 GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY. 

al For elegance sake we often omit pas, or point, after the 
verbs cesser, oser, pouvoir and savoir ; as: it ne cesse de 
pleurer, he is for ever crying ; je ne puis, I cannot ; je ne 
saurais me taire, I cannot keep myself silent, 

am Literally be. We always use the subjunctive after 
quoique. 

an Farce que, lorsque, and quand, employed in the first 
part of a period, require que in the following part, or parts, 



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